by Barry Lenson | Sep 1, 2016 | French Music, Maurice Ravel, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
I am enthralled with one of the new releases that are available for listening here on Classical Archives. It is a two-CD recording on the Urania Arts label of the great Belgian/French maestro Andre Cluytens conducting the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 12, 2016 | Choral Music, Opera, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
Einojuhani Rautavaara, widely called the finest Finnish composer since Jean Sibelius, passed away on July 17th in Helsinki at the age of 87. If you’re not familiar with his music (and I have to admit that I have only gotten to know it in the weeks since he died), you...
by Barry Lenson | Jul 10, 2016 | Conductors, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
Why the Hottest New Orchestra Comes from North of the Arctic Circle Where does today’s hottest young orchestra come from? If you ask the next five or six music lovers you meet, most of them will probably answer that it must come from south of the border where the...
by Barry Lenson | Jun 29, 2016 | Conductors, New York Philharmonic, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized
Let’s begin by watching this promotional video that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra produced about Jaap van Zweden several years ago. If you follow how America’s symphony orchestras hire conductors, you already know that the New York Philharmonic recently engaged...
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