Sometimes the stars just don’t align. This was certainly the case with Rachmaninoff’s ill-fated First Symphony, the work of a twenty-two-year-old. Its premiere on 15th March 1897 was a complete failure, ending in fiasco. The orchestra was poorly-prepared, and the conductor – renowned composer Alexander Glazunov – was…

Sometimes the stars just don’t align. This was certainly the case with Rachmaninoff’s ill-fated First Symphony, the work of a twenty-two-year-old. Its premiere on 15th March 1897 was a complete failure, ending in fiasco. The orchestra was poorly-prepared, and the conductor – renowned composer Alexander Glazunov – was…

Hard to believe: the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi composed almost 500 concertos, for a huge variety of solo instruments – 27 of them for cello and strings. An infinitely rich store of Baroque music – even if some, such as Igor Stravinsky, have mockingly said that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. This cannot be the case, gi…

Nachtkonzert / Night Concert Jesuitenkirche Luzern | circa 10 pm (included in ticketprize, please bring ticket along) Choir Prague Philharmonic Choir Conduction Lukáš Vasilek   Antonín Dvořák In Nature’s Realm | 12 ’ Bohuslav Martinů (1890 ‒ 1959) Four Songs of the Virgin Mary | 11 ’ Petr Eben (1929 ‒ 2007) Cantico delle Creature | 5 ’…