Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion (Bis)
After the atonal terrors of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, his breakthrough work, Penderecki dismayed both the western avant-garde and the atheist Polish state…
Browsing: Kent Nagano
Nagano starts orchestra series from Radio France
Kent Nagano will inaugurate a series of live one-hour concerts on Saturday from the auditorium of the Maison de la Radio, the headquarters of Radio…
From the MSO this week: Bartók, Rossini, Beethoven
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra announces its streams of the week: Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Kent Nagano, conductor (recorded Oct. 14, 2018 at…
Cancellations mount from music organizations
It was the day the music stopped – in future tense. On April 7 the City of Montreal decreed that no festivals, sporting events or…
The OSM Cancels its Concerts up to May 24
Montreal, March 26, 2020 – In order to conform to the requirements and continued measures adopted by the government of Quebec, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal…
Kent Nagano’s Farewell Concert: The OSM and 1500 Voices to Perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Sunday, August 9, 2020, on the Esplanade of the Olympic Park Montreal, February 26, 2020 – It is with great emotion that the Orchestre symphonique de…
MSO, Nagano bring in the Toronto hordes
Quite a crowd in Roy Thomson Hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano. Apparently the American maestro’s magnetism, combined with the good name…
Kent Nagano, the Waltz King
Kent Nagano has been favourably disposed to residents of Vienna – Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler – from the beginning of his tenure with the OSM.…
Bigger Bruckner is Not Necessarily Better
Comparisons might be invidious but they are sometimes essential. Or unavoidable. It would take quite an act of inner denial to discuss the OSM performance…
CD Reviews
Shostakovich plays Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, Iosif Volovnik, Daniil Shafran, David Oistrakh, Maxim Shostakovich, Miloš Sádlo, Nina Dorliak, Zara Dolukhanova, Aleksei Maslennikov, Mieczysław Weinberg, Alexander Gauk,…
