Emilia Hoving (Photo: Laura Oja) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s London season opens this week. They will be performing Mozart and Mendelsohn at the Windsor Festival tonight with conductor Alexander Shelley, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra […]
The passing has been recorded of Vladimir Shcherbakov, tenor soloist at the Bolshoi from 1977 to 1991. He was 86. His greatest fame came with a recording of the Soviet remake of Glinka’s A Life […]
A glowing profile in the New York Times failed to mention Sir Antonio Pappano’s less than happy encounters with orchestras in the US, where he spent his teenage years. Something, somehow, didn’t click. English music, […]