Interview mit dem Dirigenten Riccardo Muti

Moritz Eggert, Präsident des DKV, wird im Mai nicht erneut für das Amt kandidieren. Auslöser für Eggerts Rücktritt sind Konflikte innerhalb des Verbands: Die geplante GEMA-Reform sorgt für Spaltung im Vorstand. 

DDR-Präsident Wilhelm Pieck macht eine Oper zur Chefsache. Es war einer der größten Theaterskandale der Nachkriegszeit: die verkorkste Uraufführung der "Lukullus"-Oper von Bertolt Brecht und Paul Dessau. 

Synopsis At Carnegie Hall on today’s date in 1908, Gustav Mahler conducted the New York Symphony, the 200-voice Oratorio Society chorus and two vocal soloists in the American premiere of his Symphony No. 2, his Resurrection Symphony. These days, Mahler’s Second ranks among his mo ...  Show more

Synopsis There’s a long list of composers ranging from Vivaldi to Messiaen who have incorporated bird song into their musical works. Today we make note of one of them. On this date in 1893, great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák was vacationing with his family in Spillville, Iowa, s ...  Show more

A special, short podcast honoring Mozart on his 254th birthday. Music includes Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja from the Magic Flute and the first movement of the Piano Sonata 11 in A, K. 331. Performers include Gerhard Husch, Sir Thomas Beecham and Edwin Fischer. 

SynopsisOn today’s date in 2020, a new cello concerto by American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was given its premiere in Fort Lauderdale, by cellist Zuill Bailey the South Florida Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sebrina María Alfonso, the same performers who had commissioned the ...  Show more