Put yourself in the offices of the German wing of EMI records in 1985. A leading group, the Alban Berg Quartett – named after the famous modernist composer from their home country of Austria – has ...
In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...
Leonardo Leo lived and worked in Naples in the early 18 th century, effectively running the city’s musical life alongside Francesco Durante after the death of Alessandro Scarlatti in 1725. He didn’t ...
Coincidence of schedule took this listener to two all-by-one-composer events in less than twenty-four hours last weekend. Friday night, I caught the second performance of the weekend’s all-Mozart ...