The 55-year-old Dutch conductor and violinist Jaap van Zweden has been announced as the incoming conductor of the New York Philharmonic. He is currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and succeeds Alan Gilbert, whose appointment began in 2009 and ends with the 2016–17 season.
Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen has released her debut album Lise Davidsen with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen pn Decca. Winner of The World Opera Competition, Placido Domingo’s Operalia and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, both in 2015, Lise was the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year in 2018 and makes…
Violinist Thomas Zehetmair has recorded the solo sonatas and partitas of J S Bach, Sei Solo – Johann Sebastian Bach The Sonatas and Partitas, to be released on the ECM New Series label on 15 November. Composed three centuries ago, Johann Sebastian Bach’s set of six works for solo violin stands as one of the…
Peter Phillips, founder and director of the Tallis Scholars is a regular columnist for The Spectator. He recently posed the question whether creative genius is compatible with ‘niceness’ as a person and warns that even a conductor’s time on the podium is transient. Click here for the link.
Cellist Rachel Scott is presenting her series ‘Bach in the Dark’ again in 2012. In these unusual concerts she invites her audience to the crypt of St James’ Church in King Street Sydney for programmes of music that are founded in the compositions of the great JS Bach, but which she then takes to another…
It was July 2009 in Bali’s hill town of Ubud, tucked in by the Ayung river gorge. The wild clanging of a goat’s bell from the Greek island of Mykonos shattered the tranquility of tropical bird calls and the cascading river. Jennifer Condon was celebrating. The emerging conductor was achieved a nine year ambition to…
The Tinalley String Quartet has embarked on an exciting new chapter of recordings with the release today of an album containing the music of the two greatest protagonists in the French Impressionist movement: Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The album is being released to coincide with global commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Debussy’s death…