This is Classical Explorer‘s first Franck Symphony (D-Minor, M. 48) but it is certainly not our first Franck: we looked at piano music on Hänssler, organ music on BIS, heard Lucas Debargue’s piano transcription of […]
It has been announced tonight that Patrick Summers will step down as Artistic and Music Director at Houston Grand Opera in the spring of 2026. He has been in the post for 23 years. He […]
After a longer than expected absence for two leg surgeries, Christian Thielemann is back rehearsing at the Vienna State Opera. The work is a lifelong favourite – Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, about a composer who showed […]