BERLIN - As if performing a Wagner opera in a Nazi-era theatre by an orchestra comprised of Israeli and Arab musicians was not an unlikely enough concept, the organizer of the event said Wednesday that proceeds from the show will help build a concert hall in Ramallah.
As if performing a Wagner opera in a Nazi-era theater by an orchestra comprised of Israeli and Arab musicians was not an unlikely enough a concept, the organizer of the event said Wednesday that proceeds from the show will go to building a concert hall in Ramallah.
The New York Philharmonic is hardly the only orchestra to have visited a "hostile" country. DW spoke to Jan Nast, orchestral director of Dresden's Staatskapelle, about whether music can build bridges between cultures.
The stars are in line when these two masters meet A first rate soloist and conductor with a first rate orchestra playing a first rate piano/orchestra repertoire: that is what this two-DVD set is all about. It is one thing to have these performances of Beethoven’s five piano concertos on compact disc and quite another to have them on DVD. First, the sound is exemplary. The performances at
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