The Philadelphia Orchestra are putting a brave face on the almost-instant departure of CEO Matias Tarnopolsky to head up the New York Philharmonic. Tarnopolsky leaves in less than a month, no time at all to […]
This is another somewhat unusual (and likely hard-to-find) release, appearing on a label I’ve never heard of, la dolce volta. Similar to the Paris Polonais disc I recently reviewed, this one seems to be available […]
The annual shlock-fest of voyeuristic folly has a fervid fan. The conductor Paavo Järvi, head of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, has his eyeballs ready and his twitter-fingers itching. He can’t wait for the vote from […]