Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

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Barnabás Kelemen on celebrating the legacy of the Hungarian Violin School

Jack Pepper meets Festival Academy Budapest co-founder and Artistic Director Barnabás Kelemen to explore his upcoming concerto marathon, the gypsy violin tradition and a packed 2026 Summerfest This podcast has been produced in association with the Festival Academy Budapest. The W ...  Show more

Conductor Kirill Karabits on Thomas de Hartmann's opera Esther

Kirill Karabits and the orchestra whose Principal Conductor he was for 15 years, the Bournemouth Symphony, have recorded the opera Esther by Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956). Written in Paris during the last years of the Second World War, and completed in 1946, Esther is based on t ...  Show more

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