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2023-09-12 22:38:33
The donation from Oscar L. Tang and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, is the largest endowment gift in the orchestra’s history.
2022-06-17 17:26:00
Update on Deborah Borda
[…] is leaving at the end of the 2023-24 season.The succession plan is a little complicated; Ginstling comes on board in November as executive director. Here's the press release:NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION PLANGary Ginstling To Join as New Executive Director in November and Succeed Deborah Borda as President and CEO in July 2023; Borda To Take on New Role as Executive Advisor Beginning July 2023New York Philharmonic Co-Chairmen Peter W. May and Oscar L. Tang, on behalf of the Board of Directors, announced today that Gary Ginstling will become the New York Philharmonic’s Executive Director, effective November 1, 2022. In establishing a new precedent in succession planning at the NY Phil, Ginstling will serve as Executive Director from November 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, at which time he will succeed Deborah Borda as the Philharmonic’s President and CEO.At the Board’s request, Deborah Borda — who remains the institution’s President and CEO through June 30, 2023 — has agreed […]
2022-06-15 06:38:38
Poul Ruders' Harpsichord Concerto
Poul Ruders Harpsichord Concerto; Mahan Esfahani, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Leif Sgestam; OUR Recordings Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani premieres a work written for him, a concerto that utilises the instrument with remarkable vividness & vibrancy The world premiere recording of Poul Ruders' Harpsichord Concerto has been issued as an EP by OUR Recordings with soloist Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segestam. The concerto, premiered in 2020, was written as the result of a commission from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra specifically for a work for harpsichord and orchestra, and is here recorded live in Aarhus. Contemporary music for harpsichord and orchestra is not a new thing, since the instruments revitalising in the 20th century there have been composers willing to experiment from Manuel de Falla and Francis Poulenc to Joseph Horovitz and beyond. Ruders' takes quite a traditional approach, this is a three movement work, fast - slow - fast, lasting some 20 […]
2022-06-08 09:27:55
A romantic woodland walk with Igor Levit and Simon Bode at Wigmore Hall
Igor Levit, Simon Bode (Photo Felix Broede) Robert Schumann: Waldszenen & song, Bartok: Out of Doors, songs by Eisler, Schumann, Schubert, Wolf; Simon Bode, Igor Levit; Wigmore HallReviewed 7 June 2022 (★★★★) Interleaving short character pieces and songs, Simon Bode and Igor Levit explored Schumann's woodland wanderings, followed by an astonishing sequence which moved between Bartok's rarely performed suite and a series of complementing songs in performances that really fizzed Pianist Igor Levit and tenor Simon Bode's concert at Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 7 June 2022 took as its premise the interleaving of short piano pieces by Schumann and Bartok with similarly themed song. Both piano suites, Schumann's Waldszenen and Bartok's Out of Doors, are underperformed in the concert hall and here Levit and Bode asked us to look again. In the first half of the concert the movements from Schumann's Waldszenen were interleaved with songs by Schumann echoing the themes of […]
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