Billy Budd800 liters of water, two sails, thirty pulleys, sixty hammocks : for the Bicentenary of the Teatro Real of Madrid, Deborah Warner coined a colossal production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd. "Oh, what have I done?" Captain Edward Fairfax Vere, former commander of the H. M. S. Indomitable asks himself with horror at the beginning of the opera, before recounting the tragic events that took place aboard his ship in 1797. The story revolves around a

this was it's polar opposite: bright

I am a concerto grosso type

and that same understanding is here to be heard

Berlin and Zurich before it's author was forced to flee in the face of persecution by the National Socialists

is notable as Tchaikovsky's only symphony composed in the major mode

John Matthew Myers says

as Israel Crosby died in mid-1962

Eschenbach is being joined in this program

Better Luck Next Time

with the concept of Viennese Classicism

When Bachtrack asked him how he shapes the orchestral sound

touching on musical hallmarks of hit songs of the past