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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Sotheby’s are selling a very scarce first edition next week of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. [Giulio Cesare] Julius Caesar: an Opera. Compos’d by G. Frederick Handel, of London, Gent., London: Cluer, [1724] FIRST EDITION, [6], 118 […]
The Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan, chief of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the past four years, has been named music director of LA Opera from July 2026. Hindoyan, 45, is married to the star […]
A fantastic debut album from the fantastic Pacific Quintet. Unity themed, it combines composers from 6 different nationalities, 5 of which correspond to the home countries of the players (Bernstein being the “extra”). The booklet is […]
-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")
