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Bach: Komm, ihr Töchter – Ivan Fischer, Cantemus Choir, National Kinderkoor, Budapest Festival Orch

Bach’s St Matthew Passion is the basis for a new Passion piece, intended to give compassion and empathy a place in our age. Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Cantemus Choir, Nationaal Kinderkoor and Nationaal Jongenskoor. In ‘Compassion’ conductor and composer Iván Fischer has put together a very diverse programme, with compassion at its […]
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What if Mahler had chosen passion over paycheck?

Today, Gustav Mahler is remembered as one of history’s great composers, but back in his day, he was actually known as a superstar conductor at the Vienna State Opera. He only occasionally composed music during his summer holidays. How many masterpieces would we have had, if he’d been free to compose full-time? source