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A full century passed between the deaths of Franz Schubert (1828) and Leoš Janácek (1928): it was during this time that Romanticism reached its peak and then declined, coming to an end at the rise …

Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony began as a single-movement tone poem called Todtenfeier(‘Funeral Rites’). Completed in 1888 – one year before Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration –it echoed the composer’s vision of seeing himself lying dead …

Date: Saturday, 9 March 2019 at 14:15 Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Stenz conducts Bartok and Beethoven Program: Zimmermann, Symphony in One Movement Bartók, Viola Concerto, Sz 120 Kurtág, Petite musique solennelle en hommage à Pierre …

Seiji Ozawa made his debut on Philips Records with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the 1970’s, and he has conducted it many times over the intervening 45 years, including in a massed performance for the opening of …

This recording invites us to study six symphonies from Haydn’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period. Daniel Barenboim had been conducting the English Chamber Orchestra for 20 years when he made the first of the three LPs newly …