Two very rare videos from our archives.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of his death and no orchestra that he worked with – Berlin, Vienna, Philharmonia – has bothered to commemorate it.
Listen to this account of the Tannhäuser overture. Does any other conductor come close to his hypnotic grip?
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In an act of Kremlin musical chairs, the Russian leader has reshuffled his Presidential Council for Culture and Art. Out goes the former Bolshoi chief, Vladimir Urin, who was never much of a Putinist. In […]
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Nice to see a disc celebrating Eudice Shapiro. A pupil of the great Efrem Zimbalist, long-lived Shapiro (1914-2007) shines on this release. She was known as an orchestral and quartet leader, and here we hear […]
