Like the repertoire concertos of Brahms and Beethoven, Busoni’s Violin Concerto is cast in D major (and indeed, Busoni wrote cadenzas for both of his great predecessors’ concertos). Busoni’s Violin Concerto, Op. 37a, was premiered […]
Fiddler on the Roof – Open Air Theatre in Regents Park How wonderful to have Fiddler on the Roof back and, originally playing in Regents Park until September 21st has now been extended to the 28th. […]
The Miró Quartet at La Jolla Music Society in 2024 [Photo: Ken Jacques] The Miró Quartet‘s album, Home, released in May 2024 is the quartet’s second album on Pentatone, following their recording of Beethoven’s Complete […]
Sometimes described as Japan’s leading composer, Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955) s a composer whose scores, while Modernist, exude beauty. The Naxos series of his works is significant: it has been over a decade since I […]
So in Love – Kiss Me Kate There’s a new production of Cole Porter’s great musical at the Barbican Theatre until Sept 14th. The casting is a bit odd. Who would ever have thought of bluff, […]
Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired: John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]
Antoine Siguré, Principal Timpani of the Philharmonia Orchestra since 2016, has joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Antoine, 37, is also Professor of Timpani at the Royal SAcademy of Music. That’ll be a long commute. The […]
Esa-Pekka Salonen is leaving the San Francisco Symphony because the board won’t pay for his programming. That’s widely known. In the next few days the board will seek city permission to go ahead with a […]
Message from the board in response to the musicians’ rebellion against the management over the Israel-Palestine war: MSO Statement, 16 August. The Board of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will conduct an independent external review into our […]
For reasons that are unclear – possibly a libretto laden with innuendo, or a subplot about desertion from the army, in an opera composed near the end of the Napoleonic Wars – Rossini’s third opera, […]
