The first piece, "Tropical Night", is a nocturne with fragments of dance rhythms. The second piece, “Butantan,” depicts Instituto Butantan, a snake research institute that Respighi visited in São ...

There was a change of conductor from the one advertised for this BBC Philharmonic performance at the Bridgewater Hall – but ...

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Guest conductors and the firebrand soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Alisa Weilerstein brought welcome energy to David ...

The theme for this week’s New York Philharmonic program, led by guest conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, could be Central ...

obsessed about how she had played the opening flourish of Schumann’s piano concerto that evening with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. (Her verdict: “not so good.”) And she became ...

However this masterwork presents numerous challenges to any amateur orchestra. The strings have to negotiate long passages of rushing semiquavers. Particularly cruelly in the second movement the first ...

Born in Nazareth, Saadi’s career took off at 11 when he joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and by 25, he was leading the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic ... the Helsinki ...

“The coming to San Francisco of the world-famous Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is being awaited with intense interest. Not only our Jewish community but music ...

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar ...

This is the primary “connection” the Valley Symphony Association Orchestra and Valley Youth Orchestra strive to forge. But there’s more. The two separate orchestras — in one smaller-sized ...