Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad. This […]
If the name Matthias Moosdorf does not instantly ring a bell, it may be because he hasn’t played much music of late. Moosdorf, 59, was fired by the Leipzig String Quartet in 2019 over his […]
The Atlanta gadfly music critic Mark Gresham reviewed the Mozart C minor Mass: … Stutzmann’s conducting visibly lacked precision, which was evident right from the opening bars, where the violas were not quite in sync. […]