The Russian-born conductor of the Czech Philharmonic tells David Krauss in Speaking Soundly that he learned to manage pre-concert tension by playing volleyball from age 10 to 18 with Dynamo Leningrad.
‘My piano teacher was furious,’ he says. ‘Somehow I never injured my fingers.’
On his very first day in New York, he met two nieces of Rachmaninov, one of them Tchaikovsky’s god-daughter….
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The international violinist Renaud Capuçon has lost an appeal against conviction for failing to declare earnings on a dozen concerts. The news site L’informé reports that the musician omitted to declare 5 concerts in 2013 […]
A high-class introspective reading of opus 9/3 from Isabelle Faust (Violin), Raphael Sachs (Viola) und Frank-Michael Guthmann (Cello). Doesn’t get much better. The post A Beethoven trio to close the year appeared first on Slippedisc.
