St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – Leonard Slatkin conducts his own Schubertiade & Elgar’s First Symphony, with Emanuel Ax playing Mozart’s C-major Piano Concerto (No.25/K503). Broadcast live on both Classic 107.3 and on St. Louis Public Radio.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – Leonard Slatkin conducts his own Schubertiade & Elgar’s First Symphony, with Emanuel Ax playing Mozart’s C-major Piano Concerto (No.25/K503). Broadcast live on both Classic 107.3 and on St. Louis Public Radio.

Oct 15, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Emanuel Ax & Leonard Slatkin Saturday, October 11, 2025 Powell Hall at the Jack C. Taylor Music Center, North Grand Boulevard, St Louis, Missouri Hypnos, representing Greek gods, decided that the six-hours-behind-UK SLPR broadcast should escape me, although,...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Daniele Gatti conducts Webern’s Langsamer Satz, Stravinsky’s Symphony in C & Brahms Three. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Daniele Gatti conducts Webern’s Langsamer Satz, Stravinsky’s Symphony in C & Brahms Three. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Oct 11, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Saturday, October 11, 2025 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Daniele Gatti is currently chief conductor of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Staatskapelle Dresden, artistic advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and music director of Orchestra...
BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall – Dalia Stasevska conducts Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s ARCHORA, Ligeti’s Atmosphères & John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall – Dalia Stasevska conducts Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s ARCHORA, Ligeti’s Atmosphères & John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Oct 9, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Barbican Hall, London Three works related by sound and dynamics – similar objectives, different results – occupied this without-interval concert, the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Stephen Bryant, leader) demonstrating its prowess in...
Warner Classics releases Carlo Maria Giulini’s Columbia/HMV London recordings of Dvořák’s Symphonies 7, 8 & the ‘From the New World’ No.9, with Mstislav Rostropovich in the Cello Concerto plus Saint-Saëns’s A-minor Cello Concerto No.1.

Warner Classics releases Carlo Maria Giulini’s Columbia/HMV London recordings of Dvořák’s Symphonies 7, 8 & the ‘From the New World’ No.9, with Mstislav Rostropovich in the Cello Concerto plus Saint-Saëns’s A-minor Cello Concerto No.1.

Oct 5, 2025 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites

London Philharmonic Orchestra (Concertos & Symphony 7)Philharmonia Orchestra Recorded 1961-77; Remastered in 192kHz/24-bit from original tapes by Art & Son Studio, Annecy;Remastered for SACD by Studio Circé Big, serious, heartfelt, emotional fire, lyrical...
Manhattan School of Music – Leonard Slatkin conducts Adolphus Hailstork’s Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem & Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony. Live MSM webcast.

Manhattan School of Music – Leonard Slatkin conducts Adolphus Hailstork’s Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem & Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony. Live MSM webcast.

Oct 4, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Adolphus Hailstork (born 1941, Rochester, New York) Friday, October 3, 2025 Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York City Time differences! Another evening-morning calling for yours truly, tension-filled (would I still be awake at midnight-thirty?)...