I loved Sami Junnonen’s earlier recording on the Resonus label of Mozart’s Flute Quartets with members of Chamber Domaine. So I was eager to hear him tackle some difficult contemporary flute repertoire. What a striking […]
The Swiss composer Pierre Mariétan died yesterday in his 90th year. A former associate of Boulez and Stockhausen, he leaves 300 instrumental, orchestral, vocal and electro-acoustic works. His pièce de résistance is Paysmusique (1991), which […]
This is uncommon. The Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu writes: When a conductor is preparing an opera production he/she needs an assistant. Conducting assistants provide an extra pair of ears, they listen to the balance, observe […]