Stravinsky’s journeys: the first part of ‘roaring through Paris’ makes a splash
01.02.2021Originally published in March 2018 at Art Around the Globe Vasily Petrenko/LPO (23 and 28 February 2018, soloists: Brantelid and… Continue reading
Author: Yulia Savikovskaya
Interview with Sturdivant Adams
26.01.2021Sturdivant Adams is a young American composer who has studied at Columbia University (BA in Music) and University of Oxford… Continue reading
Tuning up to the unknown: the feast of sounds at Another Space Festival
26.01.2021One of the highlights of the musical year 2020 in Russia was undoubtedly the VII International Contemporary Music Festival Another Space that took… Continue reading
Mariss Jansons with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, 24th November 2017
26.01.2021Originally published on Art Around the Globe in Nobember 2017 On Friday the 24th November 2017 classical music lovers at… Continue reading
Music as an Instrument of Human Cognition: a Leap Through Five Centuries
21.01.2021Original date of publication: 22 December 2017 (Art Around the Globe) Les Arts Florissants with Monteverdi ‘Selva morale e… Continue reading
When black and white keys burst into an array of colours
12.01.2021XVth International Piano Festival at Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. December 19-28, 2020. Paradoxically in the current musical world and as… Continue reading
Working on Wagner: experiences of Das Rheingold
15.12.2020Lilli Paasikivi, who sang Fricka in FNO’s production of Das Rheingold (September 2019), shared some thoughts at the time on… Continue reading
Musical feasts by modern Russian composers
15.12.2020Musical feasts of emotions that bind people together: new works by Rodion Shchedrin and Sofia Gubaidulina are performed at the… Continue reading
Anders Hillborg: you cannot understand music – you can only experience it
15.12.2020One of Sweden’s leading composers, Anders Hillborg is that rare artist whose music strikes a chord across many different countries… Continue reading
Lilli Paasikivi on functioning of the modern opera house
15.12.2020Lilli Paasikivi is a Finnish mezzo-soprano who since 2013 has been the Artistic Director of Finnish National Opera and Ballet.… Continue reading