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After intermission, Ax joined the orchestra for a predictably fine performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major. Brahms did not begin composing this concerto in four movements as a symphony, as he had with his first concerto, but the piece lacks none of the grandeur of...
Now everyone loves the Chieftains. Almost. "The diehards don't like us," Moloney says. "But with The Long Black Veil we've made a million more friends than we've lost. We are not going off our rocker. And we are not going to become rockers." Moloney hopes to go...
As their closing work, the Quartet performed Schumann's Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3. Unlike other quartets less given to subtlety, the Borromeo was clearly comfortable with the tender, non-symphonic nature of the music.
"In order to make the opera work, we had to silence the film," says Glass. Indeed, what the composer's creation most resembles is an old-fashioned silent movie shown with live symphonic music. Silent films were never really silent; an organ or piano was always playing along, so the...
A nine year-old boy, spellbound by his first musical experience at the Concertgebouw, rises to become the orchestra's principal conductor at just 35 years of age. A little more than 25 years later, the dream comes to an end when Bernard Haitink decided to end his celebrated tenure...