Something great in C major

What the American conductor brought to her debut program this month.     The post Marin Alsop’s Brazilian at the Berlin Phil appeared first on Slippedisc.

From my monthly essay in The Critic: A rustling in the record schedules warns me that 2026 will be the Year of Havergal Brian. Never heard of him? Don’t panic. He’s an English composer of 32 symphonies […]

There has long been a theory that the German master lives on in the form of Valery Gergiev, the post-Soviet conductor who provided cultural reassurance and stability for the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin as […]