Till the Stars Come Down – National Theatre Click here to watch – subscription Everyone loves a wedding… It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and we are all invited. Over the course of a hot summer’s […]
The general director of the Orchestre philharmonique du Québec, Jean-Marc Léveillé, left the organisation this month, citing ‘irreconcilable divergences between the general management and the artistic director, Alexandre Da Costa’. One of Léveillé’s supporters speaks […]
The University of Geneva orchestra has, as of September 2024, its first female conductor. Judith Baubérot is an assistant lecturer at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève. Photo: Unige/Balint Hrotko The post New stick […]
Three violin sonatas, all from their respective composers’ late periods, form the focus of this fascinating disc. 1919 is of course just post-World War I, and it is true that, rather like the extrapolation of […]
This is journalism in the raw, Tim Page telephoning Glenn Gould in October 1980. Tim kept the tapes, which have now been uploaded online by the Gould Foundation. ‘I want this to be a different […]
The opera of Angers Nantes has appointed a successor to the retiring Alain Surans. She is Alexandra Lacroix, founder of la Cie mpda, an independent music theatre company. Not the normal Paris École nationale d’administration […]
The Conservatory owns the Askonas Holt and Opus 3 agencies. Here’s what can happen: Selected from a pool of SFCM students and recent graduates, Lindsey Ha will work with Askonas Holt for the summer of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I have no problems with impressionism. It’s what French artists do off the cuff when they can’t be bothered with sketches, what French composers do in a wishy-washy […]
Edwin Outwater, music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Canada from 2007 to 2017, has been named Principal Guest Conductor and curator of the BBC Concert Orchestra. The chief conductor is Anna Maria Helsing, Not […]
Oksana Lyniv, Simone Young, Nathalie Stutzmann. Some things do change. The post Three conductors are rehearsing at Bayreuth appeared first on Slippedisc.
