From Estonia with love: Neeme Järvi conducts Lalo
What joy this disc brings! We previously met Neeme Järvi and his Estonian orchestra here; when it comes to Lalo, they are on top form, and supported by one of Chandos’ best recordings. I vaguely […]
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The slow, sure rehab of Lord Tony Hall
The former CEO of the Royal Opera House and DG of the BBC today added a new post to his portfolio. He is to be chairman of the National History Museum, a sign that he […]
Death of movie music pioneer, 72
The death has been recorded in Richmond, California, of Douglass Fake, who produced some 700 albums of movie music on his label, Intrada. Among his exhumations were the uncut score of Leonard Bernstein’s On the […]
Moscow culture chief is arrested
The former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud. He faces up to ten years jail. As in all such cases in Russia at […]
Belgian ensemble, Ayres Extemporae, winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition at the National Centre for Early Music
Ayres Extemporae, winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition The 2024 York International Young Artists Competition took place on Saturday 13 July 2024 at the National Centre for Early Music in York, as the […]
Opera Holland Park 2024 – Wolf-Ferrari’s Susann’s Secret & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Opera Holland Park’s new production of Pagliacci this season is paired, not with its usual partner Cavalleria rusticana, but with a contrastingly comic take on the theme of suspicion and jealousy, Wolf-Ferrari’s Susanna’s Secret (a revival of John Wilkie’s production from 2019). Her […]
Yuja Wang at Tanglewood – Shostakovich, Barber and Chopin
Yuja Wang began with eight selections from Shostakovich’s cycles Opuses 34 & 87 blended into a continuous whole, creating dreamy auras, sweet melodies, dance-like passages, and a march, all decorated with shimmering figures, trills and […]
Ruth Leon recommends… National Theatre’s Live 100th Show
National Theatre’s Live 100th Show Click here to watch More than 11 million people have watched a National Theatre Live performance since April 23 2009. That was the first time audiences in cinemas throughout the world […]
50 years after Kleiber’s Beethoven Fifth: The sound engineer speaks
In October 1974, Carlos Kleiber made his first commercial recording. It was Beethoven’s fifth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and it was instantly (and lastingly) acclaimed as the most perfect interpretation of […]
Sydney’s new #2 cello
The Sydney Symphony has recruited Simon Cobcroft as Associate Principal Cello. He has been playing until now in the Adelaide Symphony, after a spell in the dreaded Malaysian Philharmonic. The post Sydney’s new #2 cello […]
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