The St Pauk Chamber Orchestra functions with artistic partners, not directors. Its players say they prefer to go conductorless.
However…. they have just chosen a new artsitic partner and he is a conductor.
Gábor Takács-Nagy, 68, is principal conductor of the Manchester Camerata.
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Czech media have reported the death of Jiří Žigmund, violist of the Wuhan Quartet from 1988 to 2014. He has suffered longterm health problems. The post Famed violist dies at 58 appeared first on Slippedisc.
This is truly special. Rogier Michael, born in Mons, Belgium in around 1553 and died 1623, was a late example of the polyphonic Franco-Flemish school. His setting of the Weihnachtshisorie (Christmas story) dates from 1602 […]
Thursday’s Berlin Philharmonic concert, conducted by Daniel Barenboim with Marthat Argerich playing Beethoven’s second piano concerto, has been described in local media as ‘the gift of the season’. Barenboim, visibly frail, conducted from a chair […]
