This is officially a CD review, but it’s also a personal story.
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Benjamin Grosvenor and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra aimed for both ends of the repertoire’s frequency curve when setting the programme together for their 9 November concert at the Budapest Academy of Music.
Eugene L. Pogány wrote a book, In My Brother’s Image about the shocking story of his father and uncle.
“G for Gustav, F for Frankreich, and K for Karajan!” instructed maestro Alain Altinoglu as he conducted a ‘symphonic mob’ rehearsal in the middle of a lovely park in Bad Kissingen, a spa town in Bavaria.
Each time Annie Fischer performed the works, she almost recreated them, which made it difficult to record as much of them as her art would otherwise have deserved.
This year, ICMA’s 2022 events were hosted by the Philharmonie Luxembourg from April 19-21 in Luxembourg.
“I have a memory from the time before I was born,” writes Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst. That memory was filled with songs by Scarlatti and Purcell.
A curiously forgotten and fairly prolific Baroque composer, Johann David Heinichen, was a contemporary of Bach; and like him, arose from St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
Star-Tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s newly-released album “It’s Christmas!” is an extraordinary labor of love that reveals a centuries-old treasure trove of old German Christmas songs.
During Müpa Budapest’s October Liszt Festival, two evenings – one in the Budapest Music Center…
