Classical Music Reviews
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Nominations announced for the 2024 Ivors Classical Awards
Jonathan Dove: Itch – Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins – Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating the best new classical music and sound art, this year’s Ivors Classical […]
Sound magic: En Couleur from the percussion group, Trio Colores
En Couleur: Saint-Saens, Ravel, Tailleferre, Debussy, Milhaud; Trio Colores (Fabian Ziegler, Luca Staffelbach and Matthias Kessper); Solo MusicaReviewed 7 October 2024 Sensitivity of touch and an ear for timbre and colour bring a sense of […]
Ethel Smyth returns to Germany: The Wreckers in Karlsruhe, The Wreckers – Der Leuchtturm des Todes in Meiningen, Strandrecht in Schwerin
Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a fascinatingly international history, the work was written to a French libretto by a France-based American, premiered in German […]
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Earth Unwrapped: Sirens for a wounded planet – Kings Place’s latest year-long series announced
Kings Place’s 17th instalment in its year-long Unwrapped series will be exploring our relationship with nature and the eco-system, plant life and ornithology, the climate crisis, activism, protest and more, through music and spoken word. Earth Unwrapped, […]
Classical Music News
Biz news: Askonas steps in to seal Yuja deal
We reported a week ago that Yuja Wang had found a new global agent at Opus3 in NY and Chicago. Today, Opus3’s UK wing Askonas Holt rounded out the deal. Here’s what they say: Yuja […]
Canadian Opera extends top team
The Canadian Opera Company has renewed the contracts of COC Music Director Johannes Debus and Chorus Master Sandra Horst to 2029. COC says: Our audiences know that an opera with Johannes at the podium and […]
Label news: Universal acquires Harmonia Mundi owner
The once-independent French classical label, based in Arles, was bought out by the Belgian group Pias in 2015. Two years ago, Universal took a 49% stake in Pias. Today it absorbed the rest of the […]
Minnesota conductor disbands his orchestra
Conductor Jay Fishman will give his last concerts with the Minnesota Sinfonia this weekend. After that, the orchestra will cease to exist. Fishman, 77, founded it in 1989 to play concerts in schools and for […]
