We have received a statement claiming to represent 123 musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras. It reads: We, musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras (MCO) are deeply saddened to learn that our founder […]
After a nine-year hiatus, I am returning to Radio 3 this Saturday to present the first of a new series of Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in the music world. My first subject is Michael […]
I find it rather uplifting that, in a global market, a great composer can be revered in one section of the world and totally ignored in the rest. It is entirely to the credit of […]
An epoch has ended. Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne: Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne stage that this had been his final performance; I wish I had been there. […]
The US soprano Alessandra Marc is getting a little overheated about the upcoming election. Her latest social media spouts include: IF YOU’RE STUPID AND GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR KAMALA , YOU AND ALL YOUR […]
The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was dissolved just over two years ago after the board failed to reach agreement with the musicians. The players promptly regrouped into the San Antonio Philharmonic, excluding all former staff […]
The cello section of the 24th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition has been won by Víctor García García, performing on a Baroque cello. Garcia, 30, takes home 10,000 Euros and the promise of future solo […]
The Colburn School’s Music Academy is to be headed by the US violinist Margaret Batjer, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1998. Batjer, 65, will give up her professorship at USC Thornton School […]
Rossini: The Barber of Seville; Dominic Sedgwick, Nico Darmanin, Katie Bray, Grant Doyle, Trevor Eliot Bowes, director: Victoria Newlyn, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren; West Green House OperaReviewed 28 July 2024 Performing the piece with real engagement […]
CBS/Columbia/Epic in the 50s and 60s. I won’t even try to unravel that nest of labels and subsidiaries here, or the reasoning behind such complexity of such arrangements in the first place. But SONY owns […]
