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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The violinist tells David Krauss on Speaking Soundly that he always did everything to the max. Growing up in Siberia, he had to play in gloves. At some point, he punched his teacher… Listen here. […]
