From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Many composers have tried to improve on Schubert. Mahler made a string-orchestra version of the Death and the Maiden string quartet, Joseph Joachim orchestrated a four-hand piano sonata, Liszt made the Wanderer Fantasy into something resembling a piano concerto. Even atonal Anton von Webern had a go…
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The opera of Angers Nantes has appointed a successor to the retiring Alain Surans. She is Alexandra Lacroix, founder of la Cie mpda, an independent music theatre company. Not the normal Paris École nationale d’administration […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: In the early days of long-playing records. a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the […]
