Written for the collector’s edition of the Wagner Ring Cycle on Pentatone, released May 2016.
Tag: Berlioz
An Alpine Symphony
Shortly before the premiere in 1915 of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Richard Strauss (1869 – 1949) quipped “Now at last I have learned to orchestrate!”
Judgement Day
The great jazz composer, bandleader and notorious procrastinator, Duke Ellington once said “I don’t need time, I need a deadline”.