May 26, 2020 | News, Videos
Hello, We at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops appreciate how difficult and strange this new world is for you. Many of our Arts and Entertainment journalist friends are now covering Covid-19 stories, while others are trying to find stories to cover —...
May 26, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos
6 December 2015 in Orchestra Hall, Detroit, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; on the day Kinah was paired with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. If I may say so, Kinah is a strong piece and stands up well. The video is linked to with Mr Slatkin’s...
May 24, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos
With thanks to the friend who put me on to this. The talented and dedicated students of the Royal College of Music SO feast on Mahler 7 in response to the venerable Bernard Haitink, then aged...
May 22, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
As ever, Sir Antonio is an engaging and illuminating guide, this time regarding a famous aria from Leoncavallo’s opera, Pagliacci. To watch the ten-minute video, please click on the play button below: House Music Episode 7 with Antonio Pappano 🎶 The seventh...
May 20, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos
Ignore the fifty-five-minute playing time (although, with this conductor, it could be), for this length includes opening and closing applause, as well as end credits. To my mind this performance is compelling, like so much from Celi. Enjoy (or...
Apr 12, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos
One of the great Symphonies, and irrespective of the composer’s nationality, Walton’s First such work (from the mid-1930s) has been championed in superb terms by Semyon Bychkov. Thanks to George Vass, via a friend, I have found on YouTube Bychkov conducting the WDR...
