Cover photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash I’ve been hard at work on music lectures lately, with only a couple of weeks until I present Beethoven’s magnificent ninth symphony to an audience who just a few years ago had only … Continue reading The Potential for Scholarship
performed by Linus Roth and the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra under Mihkel Kütson, available on Spotify I am very impressed by M.S. Vainberg’s Violin Concerto, superbly interpreted by the Communist violinist L.B. Kogan. It is a magnificent work. And I am weighing my … Continue reading Weinberg Violin Concerto in Gm, op. 67
performed by Linus Roth and Jose Gallardo, or below by Yuri Kalnits, violin and Michael Csányi-Wills, piano (cover image by Thomas Cigolla) I used to record a podcast. And one of the people on my radar I’d intended to interview before … Continue reading Weinberg Violin Sonata no. 1
Fugue for Thought 