The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]
The BBC Proms presents an eight-week celebration of music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom in almost half a century and more than 80 solo debuts Friday 18 July to Saturday 13 September […]
Génération @ Aix: Ravel, Fauré, Saint-Saëns Anneleen Lenaerts (harp / mentor); Thomas Briant (violin); Sara Ferrández (viola); Alberto Navarra (flute). Théâtre du Jeu de Palme, Aix-en-Provence, 19.04.2025 Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp, L. […]
The Solti Foundation US has given its annual $30k grant to conductor Holly Hyun Choe. She’s a former assistant to Paavo Järvi and Gustavo Dudamel, now conducting the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor. From next year […]
The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak. The […]
The orchestra has confirmed Ryan Fleur as CEO, replacing Mathias Tarnopolsky, who has gone to the New York Phil. Fleur has acted in an interim capacity since Tarnopolsky left in January. Fleur has been part […]
On Sunday 27 April 2025, the Zoffany Ensemble will be presenting a fascinating programme at Conway Hall for their Sunday concerts series at 6.30pm. The ensemble will be performing two 19th century nonets, by Louise […]
Bach: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen – Olivier Stankiewicz, Lucy Crowe, ensemble led by Maria Włoszczowska – Wigmore Hall (taken from live stream) Bach: arias from Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen and Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, Concerto […]
AskonasHolt have signed the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, who has a qualification in surgery and medicine from the University of Padua. Originally from Riva del Garda, she started out playing flute before taking her Hippocratic […]
The Akademie der Künste has announced the death of Erhard Grosskopf, a prolific composer who described himself as ‘an architect who builds a house for music’. In 1971 he created the first spatial composition Hörmusik […]
