From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]
Musicians are mourning the death of Matias de Oliveira Pinto, a cellist and professor, killed in a car crash near Münster on Monday night. The Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra writes: The Osesp Foundation deeply mourns […]
Ultra-orthodox housing minister Yitzchak Goldknopf is at the centre of a furore after he was filmed dancing at his nephew’s wedding to a song whose refrain is ‘we’ll die rather than join the army’. His […]