The Concertgebouw’s Mahler festival has its first jump-in.
Sakari Oramo has been recruited to conduct the Adagio from the 10th symphony, followed by Das Lied von der Erde, on May 18, the anniversary of Mahler’s death.
Barenboim’s participation has long been in doubt due to his declining health. He has also cancelled next month’s concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The Chicago Symphony has announced that Esteban Batallán is returning as its principal trumpet, ‘following the conclusion of a one-year leave from the Orchestra’. What is doesn’t say is that Batallán joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, […]
The conductor, singer and teacher Andrew Withington died at the weekend with family at his bedside. Among early tributes, the New Zealand Choral Federation writes: ‘ It is with great sadness that we learned today […]
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener")
