While visiting a YouTube recording of “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) performed by the piano genius Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), I recalled listening a few years back to a ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer Paavo Järvi, Conductor Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Angelich, Piano (21) Hungarian Dances, Movements: No. 1 in G minor ...
The Los Angeles Philharmonic began 2007 with the first appearance of Gustavo Dudamel guest-conducting a regular indoor, fully rehearsed symphony concert in the U.S. after he debuted in this country at ...
After an acclaimed debut UK tour in 2022, Thursday night saw a return engagement for the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra: not, at present, Hungary’s most fêted ensemble but one that, on this form ...
Is there another piece of music as gloriously, defiantly life affirming as Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra? I’m often surprised, in fact, at what an emotional experience it can be. For behind its ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A violin concerto by contemporary Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos commemorating the deaths of the space shuttle Columbia's seven crew in 2003 was chosen as the recording of the year ...