Report | Musikfest Berlin: Week 1 of Europe’s Orchestral Extravaganza with a Modern Twist
Musikfest Berlin has to be one of the premiere orchestra extravaganzas in the Western classical music world. Every year, in late summer, many of the…
Browsing: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Report | Musikfest Berlin: Big, bold and bracing programming at Europe’s best kept festival secret
Musikfest Berlin is a late summer festival which you’re unlikely to see on the same culture vulture circuit that includes Salzburg, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, and Munich.…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Like Beethoven’s Mass in C major which is overshadowed by the mighty Missa Solemnis, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is sometimes mistaken for the War…
Conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Tests Positive for COVID-19
From the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra website: “We have also recently been informed that our Music Director, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, has just tested positive for…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Symphonies nos 2 and 21 (Deutsche Grammophon)
There was never any question what was going to be my album of the week once the envelope disgorged this little twin-set from DG. I…
