Meeting Joana Mallwitz: ‘It’s funny: people don’t know what they’re missing if they’ve not heard Kurt Weill’s symphonies’

Richard Bratby
Friday, July 12, 2024

As her recording of Kurt Weill symphonies, her first album for DG, is about to be released, conductor Joana Mallwitz speaks with Richard Bratby

Joana Mallwitz (photography: Sima Dehgani)

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