It has been five years since conductor and pianist Christian Zacharias riveted Mainly Mozart Series audiences with performances of strongly individual character. His return this week reminds music ...
In the context of a Los Angeles Philharmonic season loaded with unusual programming, pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias’ journey through the Classical era at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday ...
If a time machine took you to a typical St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concert during each decade of the orchestra’s 57-year existence, who would you find leading the orchestra at each stop? Well, if it ...
After Christian Zacharias had conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in plush, punchy, skillfully proportioned yet not always stirring performances of works by Stravinsky, Bach, Schubert and Schumann, ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Neuk, or nook, is a Scottish word for corner, and there are few musical corners of the UK as remote from ...
I’ve had a piano sounding in my head for the last five months, not an ideal sound but an actual one, the one played by Christian Zacharias at Carnegie Hall, on December 13th. I spoke with him the day ...
Christian Zacharias is one of those pianists who turn exactitude into a passion. At every moment of this concert he seemed in perfect control, of himself as much as the music. Whenever he rose from ...
His style, which we know well in Scotland, is all about digital clarity. There are other elements, not least his brilliance of execution and an ability to make music ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra typically embraces the comfort of the familiar for its post-Thanksgiving programs, and this year was no exception. After a week of performing mostly lesser-known music by ...
Christian Zacharias is an established favourite at the East Neuk festival. As artist-in-residence in 2005, he was present at the start of the festival's ambitious expansion plans. Two years later, the ...