Ilia Papoian, who came third at the last Tchaikovsky Competition, is happy to speak truth to power when he gets the chance: “It is an enormous honor for me to perform before the president in […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]
The conductor, 97, gives a reflective interview to Markus Thiel. Sample quotes: There is so much wonderful music that I would like to perform and that could change me. But you just don’t have that […]