Check out this SWR event with Ingo Metzmacher and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. It respects the audience’s intelligence, taste and humour.
György Ligeti: Lontano
Dmitri Shostakovitch: 1st violin concerto
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 3rd symphony
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The Vienna State Opera has confirmed that Anna Netrebko will sing in German for the first time on its stage in January. She is cast as Prima Donna in Richard Strauss’s opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. […]
The outstanding English conductor, a trailblazer in period-instrument orchestras, died today at the age of 91. Along with Christopher Hogwood and John Eliot Gardiner, Roger captured the imagination of new audiences with performances that were […]
The departure of Dominique Meyer as Sovrintendente has set off a gave of musical chairs on the top floor of La Scala. First to go is the supremely well-informed André Comploi, Meyer’s right-hand man for […]
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
