November 17, 2024
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Label news: It’s been a Weill

Label news: It’s been a Weill

The Berlin conductor Joanna Mallwitz is set for a Deutsche Grammophon debut this summer. She has recorded the two Kurt Weill symphonies together with the Seven Deadly Sins, due for release in August.     […]

Incoming GMD makes Hamburg jump-in

Incoming GMD makes Hamburg jump-in

The Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber is taking over this week’s Cosi fan tutti in Hamburg, a full year before he starts work as Generalmusikdirektor. The Bremen kapellmeister William Kelley (pictured) will conduct the remaining […]

Cleveland names a non-concertmaster

Cleveland names a non-concertmaster

The Cleveland Orchestra, leaderless since David Radzynski resigned in March, has upgraded a recent member of the second violins to the title of first associate concertmaster. Xie, from Shanghai, joined the orchestra ten months ago. […]

Birmingham’s best

Birmingham’s best

Message from inveterate concertgoer Tim Walton: In a break from what is going on at the CBSO, I went to a fantastic concert at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the final concert of their academic year. […]

Christian Thielemann drops out

Christian Thielemann drops out

The German conductor has withdrawan from two Bruckner 8s in Amsterdam next weekend. Concertgebouw Orchestra notice: Christian Thielemann has unfortunately had to cancel his performances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra due to illness. We are very […]

King’s honours for Rutter and Wright

King’s honours for Rutter and Wright

In today’s birthday honours, King Charles has bestowed well-deserved knighthoods on the church composer John Rutter and the outgoing BrittenPears chief Roger Wright, a former head of the BBC Proms and Radio 3.   The […]