Message received: Salzburg, June 26, 2025 The return of the Berliner Philharmoniker – the festival’s founding orchestra in 1967 – marks a very special festival season in Salzburg in 2026 and, with the Be Phil […]
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, based in San Francisco, has named Peter Whelan as its next music director. Whelan, 47, will take up the baton a year from now. He succeeds Richard Egarr. Meantime, he will […]
The death has been announced of Sue Anderson, a regular performer on Broadway and Pops conductor with many leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic. She had suffered from cancer for a long while. Am ong […]
The Opus Klassik awards are so diffuse it is hard to tell who comes out top and who’s got the going-home present. There are four awards, for instance, for Young Talent of the Year. What, […]
A massive cut has been made in state and local subsidies for the lake-top Bregenz Festival at the western edge of the Austrian republic. In a cooordinated triple-whammy, the centreal govenment, region and the town […]
Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor); Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.06.2025 (9pm) A stroll through Elizabethan lute […]
Britten: Our Hunting Fathers – Allan Clayton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Awake, Helen Grime: Violin Concerto, Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Vier letzel Lieder; Anu Komsi, Leila […]
An insider tells us that the WNO orchestra will open next season without: A Leader Principal second violin ( long-term maternity leave) ANY double-basses Principal flute Second clarinet Second trumpet Second trombone Timpanist There are […]
John Savournin’s production of Lehár’s The Merry Widow (1905) – a score particularly known and loved for its evocation of bittersweet nostalgia and sentiment – moves the action to the notably unsentimental, ungentle context of […]
This was the last concert in the RPO’s ‘Lights in the Dark’ strand, here repurposed to encompass music by composers marginalised by gender expectations and/or issues of race and sexual preference. Some of the claims […]
