Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.
The Telegraph
Nicola Benedetti: The face of baroque and roll
Nicola Benedetti talks to Adam Sweeting about Vespas, Vivaldi, and her Italian roots
Beethoven, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kafka are among many artists who gave clear instructions that some work should not be published. They were ignored. Peter Stanford comments.
Financial Times
A disturbing exploration of incest and its impact, Bluthaus deserves a life beyond Schwetzingen and Bonn, writes Shirley Apthorp.
Slipped Disc
The Berlin Philharmonic want to change the sound of Mahler
Specifically, they are inviting anyone to submit a remix of their recording of the first movement of Mahler’s first symphony. Norman Lebrecht wonders why.
The Guardian
Goerner’s Liszt combined wonderful finesse alongside passages where the tension dropped. But perhaps his heart wasn’t in it, writes Andrew Clements.