After a aseason of auditions, the Israel Philharmonic orchestra has chosen Nitzan Bartana as its next concertmaster, the first woman to occupy that post. Bartana is presently second Konzertmeisterin at Basel Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland. […]
We have covered a number of concerts and releases of music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) on Classical Explorer: one overlap is that this concert of the Leçons de Ténèbres at Wigmore Hall began with the […]
Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera on Dostoievsky novel The Idiot has received audience ovations and ecstatic reviews at the Salzburg Festival. The director Krzysztof Warlikowski updates the story to Putin’s Russia, replete with characters selling their souls […]