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Emerson String Quartet to Retire in 2023.

Aug 26, 2021 | News

New York, NY: August 26, 2021 – The Emerson String Quartet, the incomparable American ensemble, will retire at the end of summer 2023, forty-seven remarkable years after it was initially formed at Juilliard in 1976. All four members of the Quartet –...

Ernest Ansermet conducts Ravel’s La valse with the Suisse Romande Orchestra [1957 film]

Aug 26, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos

Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969) Ansermet formed the Geneva-based L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1918 and conducted it for fifty years, a period of five decades that yielded numerous great Decca...

From 6pm tonight: Longborough Festival Opera streaming 2021 production of Die Walküre.

Aug 26, 2021 | News, Videos

Longborough Festival Opera will stream its 2021 concert production of Die Walküre from 6pm BST tonight.Watch here(Available on demand until Friday 25 February 2022) This concert production of Die Walküre was filmed live at Longborough Festival...