European string quartet breaks up
Message from the Adelphi Quartet: It is with a heavy heart that we announce the end of an era for us as the Adelphi Quartet. After seven unforgettable years of music-making, we’ve made the decision […]
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Ligeti and Bartok, out there at the edge of the known universe
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake – New Adventures
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Click here for tickets No, please, not The Nutcracker again. I know, it’s the season, but there can’t be a 10-year old girl on either side of the Atlantic who hasn’t been […]
He would stop writing if there was no-one to perform his music: for composer Stephen Goss’ his latest triple album is all about a celebration of collaboration
Stephen Goss Composer Stephen Goss has a new triple album out, Landscape and Memory on Deux-Elles, which showcases his recent work and celebrates his 60th birthday. The disc includes everything from music for solo guitar […]
Artistic advisor cancels conductors
The Spanish-American violinist Francisco Fullana has been named Artistic Advisor of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Starting as he means to continue, Fullana opens in March with a conductorless week of works by Glass, Piazzolla […]
Respighi’s “Maria Egiziaca” on video at last
Ottorino Respighi’s ‘mystery in three episodes’, Maria Egiziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt) started out as a concert triptych. Some have suggested its dramatic/symphonic slant puts it midway between oratorio and opera, but stagings are fairly […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Nicolas Poussin: The Painter’s Painter – National Gallery
The Painter’s Painter Click here to sign in Nicholas Poussin is often referred to as the ‘painter’s painter’ due to his influence on artists through the decades but the National Gallery in London, which has […]
Peaky Blinders is coming to Paris
The cult BBC series on Birmingham criminal gangs is about to hit the City of Lights next March in dance form, from Ballets Rambert. Looks even cultier than the original The post Peaky Blinders […]
World’s oldest radio orchestra?
Denmark started broadcasting in 1925 and DR immediately adopted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra as its radio ensemble. The BBC Symphony was not founded until 1930. The Danes will take a centennial tour around European […]
A rare chance to hear Mahler’s Schubert interpretation
In the 1890s, between symphonies, Gustav Mahler tried his hand ‘improving’ string quartets by Beethoven and Schubert, in adaptations for string orchestra. They don’t get heard much these days. The post A rare chance to […]
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