My concerto’s so much better than the movies…
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I had tea once with Miklos Rozsa in a friend’s flat, around the corner from Abbey Road. It was my first encounter with a Golden Age Hollywood composer, […]
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Break a string? I only needed three anyway
From US violinist Stefan Jackiw: Last week in a performance with my Junction Trio (@conradtao and @autocellic ) at @92ndstreety , my string broke during the climax of Shostakovich’s piano trio no. 2. I didn’t […]
The sound of wind, sunlight or water: pianist Anna Tsybuleva on her new recording of Debussy’s Préludes on Signum Classics
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Anna Tsybuleva with hr-Sinfonieorchester, Alain Altinoglu I first chatted to pianist Anna Tsybuleva back in 2021 (by Zoom from her house in the Caucasus) when having won the Leeds […]
Graupner, Solo & Dialogue Cantatas II
This is the first recording of these so-called “Dialogue Cantatas,” but it is certainly not the first appearance of the music of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): on this site: previously, we covered his bassoon “cantatas” (also […]
Live Traviata at Mannheim
Giuseppe Verdi creates a portrait of a society that tries to forget all its misery in the splendour of glittering parties. Violetta wants to break free, leave her past life behind and seek happiness with […]
Rattle and RPO to make Lucerne debuts
Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]
College swoops on new London principal
The Norwegian string player Eivind Ringstad joined the London Symphony Orchestra earlier this year as principal viola. As of this week, he is also professor of viola at the Royal College of Music. The RCM’s […]
St Thomas 5th Avenue cuts savagely back
The cornerstone Anglican church is offloading its choir school to save money. Background here. Now read this ‘prayerful’ piece of executive equivocation which, it is admitted, may not save the institution: A Message from the […]
Club Inégales is back: Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home
Peter Wiegold and notes inégales in 2016 (Photo: Frederique Bellec) Club Inégales is back! Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home for four evenings from 14 November. The events take place thanks […]
Gustavo Dudamel faces human rights protest in New York
The incoming music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is not receiving a unanimous welcome. The Human Rights Foundation has been running poster trucks through Manhattan, highlighting Dudamel’s connections with the military regime in […]
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