Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Cellist Sol Gabetta was born the daughter of French-Russian parents in 1981 in Córdoba, Argentina. At the tender age of ten, she had already won her first competition in Argentina and has received a number of accolades since then, among others a win…
Like Henry Purcell for the English music of the baroque era and Benjamin Britten for the English music of the modern age, Edward Elgar (1857 ? 1934) is regarded as the representative composer for English music in the late romantic period. This rank…
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E minor, Opus 85
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E minor, Opus 85
In June of 1919 the publisher of Edward Elgars works received a letter from a remote corner of Sussex, to which the 62-year old composer had retired to recover from a tonsillectomy. In this letter, Elgar wrote: I am terribly busy and have almost…
With the compositions of Franz Schubert, a new sound entered music history: a cantabile tenderness, which, time and again, completely unexpectedly shifts into an evocation of dark depression and fateful, inescapable catastrophe. These abrupt mood…
"My products are present in a knowledge of music and in my pain This entry in Schuberts diary in March of 1824 applies especially to the character of his Seventh Symphony. The typically romantic suffering from this world, the sense of inadequacy…
Richard Wagner's (born on May 22th 1813 in Leipzig) music dramas had an extremely polarizing effect on his contemporaries. While half the public was completely drawn into the emotional power of his works, the other half found his music and his…
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and »Isoldes Liebestod« (Love-Death) from »Tristan und Isolde«
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and »Isoldes Liebestod« (Love-Death) from »Tristan und Isolde«
Like no other 19th century work, Tristan und Isolde exudes a suggestive power that has influenced the creativity of countless composers, philosophers, writers and even psychoanalysts. Nobody, whether Wagner advocate or adversary, who has ever once…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Cellist Sol Gabetta was born the daughter of French-Russian parents in 1981 in Córdoba, Argentina. At the tender age of ten, she had already won her first competition in Argentina and has received a number of accolades since then, among others a win…
Like Henry Purcell for the English music of the baroque era and Benjamin Britten for the English music of the modern age, Edward Elgar (1857 ? 1934) is regarded as the representative composer for English music in the late romantic period. This rank…
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E minor, Opus 85
In June of 1919 the publisher of Edward Elgars works received a letter from a remote corner of Sussex, to which the 62-year old composer had retired to recover from a tonsillectomy. In this letter, Elgar wrote: I am terribly busy and have almost…
With the compositions of Franz Schubert, a new sound entered music history: a cantabile tenderness, which, time and again, completely unexpectedly shifts into an evocation of dark depression and fateful, inescapable catastrophe. These abrupt mood…
"My products are present in a knowledge of music and in my pain This entry in Schuberts diary in March of 1824 applies especially to the character of his Seventh Symphony. The typically romantic suffering from this world, the sense of inadequacy…
Richard Wagner's (born on May 22th 1813 in Leipzig) music dramas had an extremely polarizing effect on his contemporaries. While half the public was completely drawn into the emotional power of his works, the other half found his music and his…
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and »Isoldes Liebestod« (Love-Death) from »Tristan und Isolde«
Like no other 19th century work, Tristan und Isolde exudes a suggestive power that has influenced the creativity of countless composers, philosophers, writers and even psychoanalysts. Nobody, whether Wagner advocate or adversary, who has ever once…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Die Weltöffentlichkeit wurde 2015 auf den Koreaner Seong-Jin Cho aufmerksam, als er den ersten Preis beim Internationalen Chopin-Wettbewerb in Warschau gewann. Seitdem erlebte seine Karriere einen rasanten Aufstieg. Als gefragter Künstler arbeitet er…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Die Weltöffentlichkeit wurde 2015 auf den Koreaner Seong-Jin Cho aufmerksam, als er den ersten Preis beim Internationalen Chopin-Wettbewerb in Warschau gewann. Seitdem erlebte seine Karriere einen rasanten Aufstieg. Als gefragter Künstler arbeitet er…
