The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) is an anomaly when it comes to the other elite ensembles that share its top-10 world ranking. The Vienna Philharmonic…
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The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer,…
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On Jan. 16, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra delivered a sumptuous performance of Szymanowsky’s Violin Concerto n.1 op.35 and Mahler’s Symphony n7 in E minor.
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Leonard Bernstein steps off his podium and walks away from an orchestra in the throes of Brahms’s First Symphony. The musicians are now missing a conductor, but they don’t miss a single beat.