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“I certainly never planned on being a music director in a time of war,” says Hobart Earle, who has conducted this Ukrainian orchestra for 30 years.

From the blog of Gershon Hepner at The Times of Israel

The Bard Music Festival examines whether the arch-romantic composer was more modern than he seems.

The conductor was back at the Proms for the first time sine 2011 with a rather special orchestra

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The wild world of recordings serves up two new readings of Gustav Mahler symphonies —Gabriel Feltz’s of the Second, Francois-Xavier Roth’s of the Fourth— guaranteed to shake loose the last cobwebs clinging to what are now the standard interpretations.

The premiere of a new production of Leos Janacek’s opera “Kat’a Kabanova” had just ended at the Salzburg Festival here last week.

The wild world of recordings serves up two new readings of Mahler symphonies —Gabriel Feltz’s of the Second, Francois-Xavier’s of the Fourth— guaranteed to shake loose the last cobwebs clinging to what are now the standard interpretations.

The wild world of recordings serves up two new readings of Gustav Mahler symphonies —Gabriel Feltz’s of the Second, Francois-Xavier Roth’s of the Fourth— guaranteed to shake loose the last cobwebs clinging to what are now the standard interpretations.