With the proliferation of new Classical releases this year, I’ve found myself spending much more time listening than reviewing, eager to move on to the next batch of CDs that arrives in the mail. So […]
Here’s a happy holiday story. The young Austrian conductor Felix Hornbacher, assistant to Simone Young, received an emergency call from Japan. The Kawaminami Mozart Music Festival, an event founded by his uncle Balduin Sulzer, had […]
The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years. The post UK […]
The Finnish music world is in mourning for an outstanding violinist, Eriikka Maalismaa, who succumbed yesterday in hospital to a fast-progressing condition. Eriikka, concertmaster of the Helsinki Philharmonic fro 2006 to 2016, gave the world […]
The city of Würzburg has been shaken by the abrupt departure of Markus Trabusch, in tendant of the Mainfranken Theatre for the past nine years. A statement by the city said Traubusch had ‘recently been […]
Sigrid Kehl started out as a mezzo at Leipzig Opera and upscaled to soprano, singing in all major Wagner productions for more than 35 years, from 1957 until the Wall came down. Abroad, she sang […]
Russian websites have uncovered a new contract for an unnamed conductor at the Bolshoi. The contract, running from from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, is worth one million rubles a year,. At present […]
There is a week celebrating the viola at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, as it hosts the Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions from 19 to 26 January 2025. Named for two great English violists, […]
This is a live recording of the 2023 Christmas concert in Leuven (it’s an annual event). These concerts present Austrian music (Leuven lies between Vienna and Salzburg) composed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The […]
Based on author Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin had its world premiere in 1879. The opera was ground breaking for its time: instead of focusing on fast-paced, dramatic events, Eugene Onegin describes the inner worlds of […]
