We’re hearing the Lise Martel, third violin soloist at the Opera National de Paris for the past ten years, has been chosen as concertmaster at the Opera de Lyon.
For many, Arnold Schönberg is, pardon the niche family-basd pun, a no-no. His rigour, his new system of dodecaphonic (twelve-tone rows) offers challenges for sure; but before that, his late-Romantic lushness is captivating. This release […]
The buildings that house the Rachmaninoff Museum and its refular concerts on Bolshaya Ordynka have been reclaimed by the city authorities after the museum’s lease expired. The collection, founded by pianist Viktor Merzhanov, is now […]
Esa-Pekka Salonen is leaving the San Francisco Symphony because the board won’t pay for his programming. That’s widely known. In the next few days the board will seek city permission to go ahead with a […]