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…
Read on here.
The post We can do better Schubert than Schubert ever did appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra that played concerts in Teheran and Isfahan as part of the Days of Russian Culture has been stranded in Iran by the wave of Israel-Iran attacks. No flights are presently taking […]
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just completed a well-received tour of Japan. Not a word has appeared on the orchestra’s website, where the news section has not been updated since May 1. The […]
Having rigged the finals to contrive a fairer gender balance, the Leeds Piano Competition was won tonight by a 24 year-old Canadian male. Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, 24, triumphed with a performance of Brahms’s second piano concerto. […]
