The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams.
Category: Symphonie Fantastique (Musical Work)
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Review: A Conductor Surprises by Embracing the Ordinary
Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for unusual, ambitious projects. But at the New York Philharmonic this week, he succeeded with standard repertory works.
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Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets
The New York Times – Music:Herbert Blomstedt introduced the New York Philharmonic to a piece he premiered in Stockholm 59 years ago.