by Paul E. Robinson

The 100th anniversary of Mahler’s death is in 2011, but conductors and orchestras are already programming his music at every opportunity – Symphony No. 2 with Jaap van Zweden in Dallas at the end of May, for example; and more recently, Symphony No. 1 with Peter Bay leading the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Mahler’s [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

There is no one hotter in the world of classical music today than Chinese pianist Lang Lang. What a coup for Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra (SHFO) that he agreed to be the featured soloist on their first North American tour!
In this extraordinarily long tour of twenty-three concerts in [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

Last week, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony presented an all-Russian program: Rachmaninov’s “Vocalise,” followed by the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, and closing with the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, this Russian composer’s most popular symphony.

As always, Maestro Bay had prepared well and interpreted [...]

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