Meet our new contributor William Cole
 
In person :
Symphonic Shenanigans

Flying batons, chair
disaster, and more
In essence : Love
Let’s meet in the
Rat hole!
Franz Liszt and
Marie d’Agoult I
In person :
Behind the Scenes with
the Clare College Choir
Challenges of
choral recording
 

Verbier Music Festival
Founded by Swedish concert organizer Martin T:son Engstroem in 1994, the event is an annual international music festival that takes place in the mountain ski resort of Verbier...

Date: 20.07 - 05.08.2012
Country: Switzerland
In essence: Inspiration In essence: Anecdotes
Mozart and his World: Salzburg 3
Mozart’s early experience with Italian opera is documented in Daines Barrington’s report to the Royal Society in London, published in 1769. “At nine, the prodigy could already, in improvised recitatives and arias, ape operatic styles suited to anger and tenderness”...
Johann Sebastian Bach vs. Louis Marchand
We would be entirely wrong to assume that musical duels were in the exclusive domain of the 19th Century. Far from it, throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries, musicians busily battled in musical contests that measured technical facility and improvisational skills...
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In touch In person
With Alain Deguernel
The first time I met Alain, it was in a small Parisian café, almost two years ago. Prior to our meeting, I had taken an extensive look at his website forgotten records, and fallen instantly in love with his selection of old masterpieces...
Choir, Chorale, Chorus which is it already...
Opera chorusmaster, a profession steeped in mystery and nuance. An invaluable member of the opera company, he or she is a general training the troops by day and commanding them on the battlefield by night...
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Selected Video My music Forgotten records

Brahms: Intermezzo op. 117
no. 2 – Sokolov

Franz & Karl Doppler -
Flutes of Glory
Volumes 2 & 3

Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
No. 3 in G major K. 216
Allegro

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