A young conductor could do a lot worse than assimilate Shostakovich at the source. Fortunately, Mariss Jansons has the talent to turn received knowledge into music that bears a profile distinctively ...
They would sense the shape and urgency of Shostakovich's symphonic argument, but would they feel what the likes of Rostropovich and Svetlanov always told us about the infinite suffering of the late ...
Bitter, brooding and sarcastic – yet always deeply moving – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies reflect more vividly than almost any other 20th-century creations the blood and brutality of perhaps the ...
Mariss Jansons, who died November 30 at the age of 76, was one of the world’s greatest conductors, and at the same time one of the most beloved, by audiences and above all by the musicians he led. The ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra tour coincides with the release of ...
In a post yesterday, I spoke of a concert by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. That was the first evening of a three-concert stand. Today, I will speak of the second evening, ...
The orchestra brings with it a few blockbuster symphonies, starting with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (a review from their Munich performance here) in Washington and Chapel Hill. That’s grand cinematic ...
The Seventh Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich is combat reporting from one of the most devastating events in modern times. On June 22, 1941, Hitler's army invaded the Soviet Union. By late August the ...
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