San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony.
As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of US citizenship.
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The Malmö Symphony Orchestra has appointed the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck to be its Honorary Guest Conductor. The ‘honorary’ renders the title almost meaningless. He won’t have to do much. Honeck, 64, has been […]
A coupling here of Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio with Shai Wosner’s aangement of the Fourth Symphony. We have seen previous volumes in this series here and here, and the combinations have worked well. Here’s the promo video; […]
The recent Göttedämmung at the Royal Festival Hall was due to feature Brindley Sherratt as Hagen. It was not to be (although there was a luxury stand-in); in compensation, we have this remarkable disc for […]
