Lebrecht Weekly | Miklos Rozsa’s Violin Concerto with LSO Live
I had tea once with Miklos Rozsa in a friend’s flat, around the corner from Abbey Road. It was my first encounter with a Golden…
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Lebrecht Weekly | Folk Songs: Magdalena Kozena/Simon Rattle (Pentatone)
Nothing seemed to add up on my first encounter with Magdalena Kozena’s trawl through four sets of folk songs orchestrated by Bela Bartok, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel and the Spaniard Xavier Montsalvatge.
Seong-Jin Cho: Beyond Chopin
Seong-Jin Cho shot to fame after winning first prize at the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition in 2015. Since then, Cho has played the Chopin…
Lebrecht Weekly – Elgar, Martinu: Cello concertos (Sony Classical)
The Argentine-born Sol Gabetta, now in her mid-30s, made her first recording of the Elgar concerto six years ago in Denmark, an impressive performance stressed…
Video of the Day – Karajan: the 25th Anniversary of His Death
It was 25 years ago this month (July 16) that Herbert von Karajan passed away. He was 81 and still conducting regularly even though he had…
Video of the Day – Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale
Berlioz was one of the most innovative orchestrators in the history of music. He had a genius for combining instruments to produce unusual sonorities, and…
Video of the Day – Simon Rattle Talks About the Karajan Academy
One of Herbert von Karajan’s lesser-known achievements was the creation of a training orchestra associated with the Berlin Philharmonic. Over time it has become enormously…
