Today (07/31/17) it was announced that Philippe Jordan, Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, was appointed Music Director of the Wiener Staatsoper. The Wiener Symphoniker and Philippe Jordan will soon be touring Japan, South Korea, France, Germany and Switzerland. Most recently, Jordan’s cycle of all symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven in the 2016-17 season, which was also recorded for the first time as a complete cycle for the in-house CD label, was recorded and will be released in autumn 2017.

International Opera Awards 2017

Philippe Jordan, Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, was named Best Conductor at the prestigious International Opera Awards.

Congratulations!

We are happy about two nominations:

Liv Migdal: Acht Jahreszeiten
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni
Piazzolla: Cuatro estaciones portenas

Sinfonieorchester Basel: Igor Strawinsky
“Pétrouchka (Originalversion from 1911)”
Version for Orchestra and for Piano Four Hands

Unconditional meticulousness: The Et Arsis Piano Quartet releases its debut album with piano quartets by Johannes Brahms and Peteris Vasks at Solo Musica

There are music ensembles that launch their debut CD just days after their first rehearsal. Well, exaggerated said. The Et Arsis Piano Quartet certainly did not show such a precipitous will to publish: the four musicians spent a good ten years before they recorded their first record.

With their forward-moving, accented recording of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (op. 25), the four chamber musicians make an independent, contentious contribution to the musical discussion of Brahms interpretation. They are preceded by the quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano by the contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who like no other person gives musical expression to the exile of his people in their own country during Soviet rule and the uncertainty of the years of transformation.