Despite containing what is probably Rameau’s best known single piece of music (the keyboard piece Les Sauvages, arranged as the vocal ensemble ‘Forêts paisibles’) this is claimed to be the first fully staged performance in […]
We’re trying to figure out how streaming differs from reacord buying and all we can say so far is that the global streaming chart bears little or no relation to physical product sales. Here’s this […]
Ronald Copes is stepping away from the JSQ after 28 years. His successor is Leonard Fu. He remains the only male. Fu’s early years in Germany were guided by studies with Lara Lev and Tanja […]
Last year in Salonika, the 16th International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition, the jury withheld first prize. Second went to a Russian, Sergey Akimov. This should have been the start of an international career but Akimov is […]
The Milwaukee Symophony has agreed a new pay deal with its musicians. It involves a 3% pay increase in 2025-26 and 2026-27, and a 3.5% increase in 2027-28. This is starting to look like benchmark […]
At a time of overwhelming anti-semitism, A Survivor from Warsaw comes as a timely reminder of what genocide really means. It’s from the NDR Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The post Arnold Schoenberg, just when […]
The Austrian opera festival, hit by a 30 percent subsidy cut, is looking for help wherever it might be lying exposed. Happily, this week the town of Bregenz declared a new nudist bathing area on […]
The Italian conductor Fabio Luisi happens to be in Milan, conducting the first performances of Bellini’s Norma in almost half a century. In comes news that Tugan Sokhiev has pulled out of three performances of […]
Francis Brett has posted on social media: ‘I’m very sad to announce the death of my Father, Charles Brett on 24th June, peacefully at home. Having seen him earlier that morning I could tell he […]
The general manager of the Metropolitan Opera has spoken to a group of Ukrainian journalists about his attitude to the Russian invasion. Among other things, Gelb said: ‘I don’t want to have cultural ties with […]
