Conductors Archive

With her beautiful and dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle’s side during the New Year’s Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss’s lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The program also includes works …

On this recording, violinist Christian Tetzlaff performs Béla Bartók’s (1881–1945) two masterpieces in a new recording with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. Christian Tetzlaff is considered one of the world’s leading international …

Featured Artist: Khatia  Buniatishvili Venue: Liszt Academy Address: H-1094 Budapest, Páva u. 10–12. Date/Time: April 9, 2018, 19:30 Program: Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute, K.620 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op.23 …

While I have been a devoted Mahler fan for many years, I have not been able to penetrate the secrets of this work. On one hand, I enjoy the movements titled “Night Music”, but on …

Time passes, and things change. Pianist Alfred Brendel no longer appears in live concerts. Imagine briefly how surprised I was to see him in a recorded concert with Martha Argerich and her friends. He was …