Riccardo Muti finds that this, like all of Bruckner’s symphonies, carries a message for the soul The first memorable Bruckner performance I heard was in London while I was Chief Conductor of the ...
It would be idle to pretend that this latest addition to Sony’s Bruckner cycle with Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic is in the same class as the exceptional account of the Fourth Symphony they ...
Schoenberg's idealistic Society for the Private Performance of Music (members only, no applause or expression or displeasure, no critics) was shortlived (1918-21), undone by hyperinflation that would ...
When the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra hired Adam Stern in 2003 as its sixth music director (since its founding in 1944), the company embraced his reputation for innovative music programming. “Every ...