From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his last symphony with left hand alone. A heart attack in 1966, followed by several falls and fractures, left him heavily disabled. His solution was to train one hand to do the work of two, and to economise on physical effort. This may explain the expanses of blank staves in some pages of his 15th symphony …
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This is Teodor Currentzis, the Putin collaborator, conducting Bruckner’s 9th last night in Hamburg. The orchestra was his own Utopia pickup band. The post Sleeveless is the new conductor trend appeared first on Slippedisc.
Message from the festival: Evgeny Kissin has unfortunately fallen ill and has been forced to cancel his solo recital on 4 August. The Salzburg Festival is extraordinarily grateful to Igor Levit for stepping in to […]
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today aged 80, his son has reported. After an education that he rounded off at Juilliard, Segerstam became chief conductor at Finnish National Opera, and at Stockholm’s Royal […]
