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Sep 4, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga The last few weeks have seen a crop of varying Eroicas. Nothing as vastly scaled or sonically cosmic as Celibidache (Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, 1987, fifty-eight minutes music time, without the first-movement repeat – inviting us to ponder...
Aug 11, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
At the invitation of Monica, John McCabe’s widow, Colin’s Column is delighted to re-publish the composer and pianist’s memoir of Sir John (1899-1970) Precisely how the myth grew, I cannot say, but towards the end of his life, and for a short period after his death,...
Aug 5, 2020 | Insights, News
BBC World Service, Saturday 15 August 1200-1300 BST A huge episode of Music Life sees one of the most versatile composers working today. Max Richter (Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, Ad Astra, Mary Queen of Scots) asks the stars of film, TV, and stage how they got their...
Aug 4, 2020 | Insights, News
John Eliot Gardiner presents a series of eight podcasts exploring Monteverdi’s role at the centre of seismic changes and tumultuous advances in all the arts and sciences during the early 1600s, spearheaded by his contemporaries – Galileo, Kepler, Bacon,...
Aug 4, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
Ateş Orga writes: Leon Fleisher came from that generation of Americans born in the 1920s who were to bring their platinum-plated synthesis of native talent and European honing to dominate the world scene of the Cold War years. His peers included Graffman, Istomin,...
Jun 12, 2020 | Insights, Videos
9 June 2020, online at 2 p.m., now available to Watch on Demand. “Emanuel Ax continues his exploration of the history of great pianists who have performed at Carnegie Hall. Joining him for this afternoon of music and conversation are Garrick Ohlsson,...
