Classical Music Reviews
The Watchman: “Save Our Souls,” VENI Ensemble in Bratislava
Save Our Souls VENI Ensemble. Slovenian National Gallery, Bratislava, 11.02.2025 Daniel Matej (b, 1963) Save Our Souls (2015, version for picc/piano) Sciarrino Let me die before I wake (1982) Lenka Novosedlkovà (b. 1989) Obraz I […]
Many happy returns: György Kurtág celebrates his 99th birthday
György Kurtág and Benjamin Appl during the recording of Lines of Life The great Hungarian composer György Kurtág is 99 today. This week Kurtág’s album, Lines of Life, with baritone Benjamin Appl, and pianists James Baillieu […]
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Real musical riches: Thea Musgrave’s major operatic statement, Mary, Queen of Scots returns to the UK after an embarrassing period of neglect
Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots – Heidi Stober – English National Opera, 2025 (Photo: Ellie Kurttz) Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots; Heidi Stober, Alex Otterburn, Rupert Charlesworth, John Findon, director: Stewart Laing, conductor: Joana Carneiro; […]
Pierre Monteux Live: The Rite of Spring and much more on SOMM
This is a remarkable two-CD set comprised entirely of first releases including never-before-issued performances led by the renowned conductor Pierre Monteux. Among these is a legendary 50th Anniversary performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with the composer in attendance, given […]
Classical Music News
Breaking: Another Michigan sex scandal
The University of Michigan is seeking the dismissal of Associate Professor Scott Piper, former chair of the Music, Theatre & Dance Department, following a student’s allegations of sexual harrassment. Piper had an international career as […]
Renee Fleming wrestles with directing an opera
The soprano, 66, will make her directing debut in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Aspen Festival this July, it has been announced in Colorado. “It’s supposed to be royalty or aristocracy,” she said. “I’m […]
Canadian orch appoints … Canadian
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has named Jean-Marie Zeitouni as its next music director. Zeitouni, 51, from Montreal, has been music director of the Columbus Symphony and principal conductor and artistic director of I Musici de […]
‘I got booted out of music school’
Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, had a turbulent childhood with two older sisters who competed for a music career. Her mother died when she was 14, and that changed […]
