The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili has walked out on HarrisonParrott after 27 years. She has joined up instead with second-gen management at Impresariat Simmenauer in Berlin. Her transition may be linked to the recent retirement […]
The Audite International Conducting Masterclass takes place this week in Budapest with the Solti Chamber Orchestras. The tutors are Jonathan Brett (UK) and Maciej Zoltowski (Poland/US). Of the 15 candidates selected, eight are young women. […]
Remember the concertmaster in Schleswig-Holstein who fed rat poison to his mother and two colleagues? He was jailed for six and a half years last October. Now, the federal superior court has ordered a retrial. […]
A couple of years before Covid, the NY Times stopped reviewing all the classical music that’s fit to print. After a century or so of covering the musical waterfront, the paper scrapped smaller venues and […]
The culture minister has renewed Volksoper chief Lotte de Beer by five years to 2032. The Dutchwoman, 42, has managed a smooth transition of music directors, from Omer Meir Wellber to Ben Glassberg, and has […]
Some responses to our Twitter trawl for pescatarian operas: Salom(on)e Tur&bot Porgy and Bass The Frying Dutchman Twilight of the Cods Madama Batterfry Figaroe Attilapia The Eelixir of Love The Exterminating Angelfish Lucia di Lampreymoor […]
Titian’s Rest on the Flight Into Egypt Click here to watch Here’s another of those delicious short art history videos that I love so much. Dr James Fox, art historian and broadcaster and Letitzia Treves, who […]
If you fancy an Autumn weekend in Norway, then the Engegård Quartet is offering a deep dive into the chamber music and songs of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. The Engegård Quartet [whom we heard recently at […]
I have enjoyed many CDs over the years from the Belgian chamber ensemble, Oxalys. On the Fuga Libera label, the Mozart and Ries Flute Quartets are simply glorious. And more recently on Passacaille, entire albums of […]
Opening in a blaze of raw Handelian energy, this is a disc for the ages. Three psalms: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, all magnificently shaped by Justin Doyle with a simply superb line-up of […]
