Felix Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manze (conductor) PENTATONE PTC 5186595 Released on 01-03-2017 March 2017. Mendelssohn’s warmly lyrical and evocative Scottish symphony is paired with his confident and precocious first symphony for the first in a series of recordings in multi-channel surround sound for PENTATONE by the conductor Andrew Manze…
Tag: Dvorak
Press releases: October 2016
(1) Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsodies & Symphonic Variations (2) Beethoven & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Composers and the Demon Drink
Theirs was not an auspicious first meeting. The young Johannes Brahms was on a walking holiday en route to visiting Robert and Clara Schumann, when he stopped at Weimar in June 1853 to hear Franz Liszt give a private performance of his magisterial Piano Sonata in B minor, a work now regarded as one of…
A Bohemian in New York
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) was a genial, unassuming man for whom life was “a very wonderful, uncomplicated thing”. Arriving in New York in 1892, his patron handed him over to the music critic James Huneker for the day’s excursion. This started innocently enough with Mass at a Bohemian church, but it soon degenerated into…