Dear Alma, My friend has the hots for her prof
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, A friend of mine at conservatory has the hots for our teacher. She flirts with him all of the time, and he has started to respond positively. He is […]
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: I like playing in a bar
Talking to Zsolt Bognar on Living the Classical Life, the British cellist thinks classical musicians should get out more. Concert halls are fine, he says, but a bar is where you meet different types. When […]
Tenor flies from La Scala to attend birth of his child
The home of Italian opera had a last-minute cast change in Forza del Destino last night. The US tenor Brian Jagde, himself a late substitute for Jonas Kaufmann, left Milan before last night’s performance to […]
New York Philharmonic – Ton Koopman conducts Handel’s Messiah
Over the past two decades a period-instrument aesthetic has dominated the Philharmonic’s annual presentations of Messiah with early-music specialists such as Harry Bicket, Jeanette Sorrell, Masaaki Suzuki and Fabio Biondi recruited to conduct them. This year Ton Koopman, founder […]
New concertmaster in Berlin
The German violinist Roberta Verna will start a trial year as first concertmaster of Deutsche Oper Berlin in September. Verna, 26, was previously with the Copenhagen Philharmonic. Before that, she was with Bavarian State Opera. […]
European string quartet breaks up
Message from the Adelphi Quartet: It is with a heavy heart that we announce the end of an era for us as the Adelphi Quartet. After seven unforgettable years of music-making, we’ve made the decision […]
Ligeti and Bartok, out there at the edge of the known universe
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake – New Adventures
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Click here for tickets No, please, not The Nutcracker again. I know, it’s the season, but there can’t be a 10-year old girl on either side of the Atlantic who hasn’t been […]
He would stop writing if there was no-one to perform his music: for composer Stephen Goss’ his latest triple album is all about a celebration of collaboration
Stephen Goss Composer Stephen Goss has a new triple album out, Landscape and Memory on Deux-Elles, which showcases his recent work and celebrates his 60th birthday. The disc includes everything from music for solo guitar […]
Artistic advisor cancels conductors
The Spanish-American violinist Francisco Fullana has been named Artistic Advisor of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Starting as he means to continue, Fullana opens in March with a conductorless week of works by Glass, Piazzolla […]
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