Making sense of the manuals: The VIII International Organ Festival “Mariinsky”
02.02.2021The New Year has come and in 2021 Mariinsky Theatre continues to impress with its programming, and the security of… Continue reading
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
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
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