Page 13 - First Symphony News Today

CityMusic Chamber Concert: Batonless Beethoven Come to this concert and you will see...an empty podium? Yes! CityMusic Chamber Orchestra is going “democratic” with no conductor, encouraging artistic input from every player. The group “will be more like a giant chamber ensemble, where we are all in touch,” describes Concertmaster Laura Hamilton. Experience the iconic sounds of Ludwig van Beethoven’s First Symphony, plus “Starburst” by acclaimed young Amer...

<br>His friend Mahler called him a genius, but there’s little in this recording – fine though it is – of Rott’s first symphony to persuade us of that

Over the past week at David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s overhauled home, I’ve listened from the new block of seating behind the

The BBC’s 100th birthday gift from its Symphony Orchestra was Iain Farrington’s jaunty tribute, plus a scientific curiosity, a noble Elgar and an edge-of-your seat Sibelius finale

After a major renovation, the acoustics throughout David Geffen Hall are strikingly consistent — but complicated.

The conductor from Kherson was probably murdered sometime in September, aged 46 | Obituary

FOR PIANIST IGOR LEVIT, music always opens out onto a social context. In 2020, when the pandemic temporarily shut down concert life, he put on a series of hauskonzertes livestreamed from his flat. These were models of what a classical concert could be: intimate, accessible, with an ear to the music of leftist composers such as Cardew, Dessau, and Rzewski alongside canonical repertoire. Levit’s latest release likewise reclaims a strain of dissidence within and against the tradition, pairing pi...

At the San Francisco Symphony, Magnus Lindberg’s music is being conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, his fellow Finn and former classmate.

Among the many concert hall composers seduced by cinema were Shostakovich, Korngold and Copland. Yet each brought an individual outlook and had very different experiences, relates Andrew Farach-Colton

The EFA's 70th anniversary assembly earlier this month was disturbed by shelling at the disputed border with Azerbaijan, but this only served to further focus the EFA on its goals, Simon Mundy reports