(Photo: © SF/Marco Borrelli) If I had to define the Salzburg Festival in one word, it would be “tradition.” This has both good and bad implications. Revering tradition is an active attempt to make the past alive and present. The concertgoers sport their Dirndl and Lederhosen, traditional Tirol formal wear, with much pride, as they should. The claims of tradition, however, {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York is set to perform the U.S. premiere of a new critical edition of Brahms’s “A German Requiem.” OSNY Music Director Kent Tritle conducts the epic work with soloists Susanna Phillips and Takaoki Onishi. The new critical edition, which will get its U.S. premiere in this performance, is by an international team led by the {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York has revealed details of its upcoming 147th season, which will include two world premieres. The season will kick off with “Rachmaninoff and Duruflé” at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The program will include excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, an “a cappella work of remarkable spirituality,” along with Duruflé’s Requiem. Featured vocalists will include contralto Kirsten {…}