Among recent recordings of music by Gustav Mahler, the 2004 release of the composerís Second Symphony conducted by Claudio Abbado stands out as an intense and highly charged performance.
SCHOENBERG: Accentus | Ensemble intercontemporain
Schoenberg, born in Vienna in 1874, is remembered as a composer and a music theorist. He held strong attitudes toward the craft of composition and its pedagogy, which have been received as the beginnings of a theory of music, though Schoenberg denied ever attempting to create a systematic theory.
Marilyn Horne to be Distinguished Professor of Voice
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Tom Sutcliffe – Behind the scenes
Sheridan Morley, impressed with Michael Grandage’s staging of Schiller’s Don Carlos last February, turned to a fellow critic at the Gielgud Theatre and asked if they had known that it was such a terrific piece, adding jocularly that somebody ought to make an opera of it.