The Swedish conductor will celebrate his 97th birthday on Thursday with a performance of Bruckner’s ninth symphony.
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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the 15 Shostakovich quartets […]
The board of FEVIS, the Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés, has expelled the renowned French ensemble Les Siècles after its founder-conductor Francois-Xavier Roth was found to have sent inappropriate images to female musicians. […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A Capella Summer School: work with Frances M Lynch of Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall")
