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The death has been communicated of Barry Jordan, organist and music director of Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. The cause of death was cancer. A graduate of the university of Cape Town, he studied in Vienna […]

The indefatigable musician is resting at home in Berlin after an exhausting West-East Diwan tour. He cannot live without making music. Here, he discusses music as stimulus, or oblivion. We wish Daniel many happy returns. […]

Our renowned ballet reviewer had an unusually bad night:   MaddAddam, Wayne McGregor’s Timidly Clichéd Dystopia by Alastair Macaulay   In Wayne McGregor’s new three-act “MaddAddam”, the Royal Ballet has chosen to present us with […]

Comedy had traditionally played little part in French opera. Lully soon eliminated comic episodes from his tragedies; from then until the appearance of this work, only a handful of operas had comic themes. The theme […]

Conserving a delicate Renaissance drawing – Royal Collection Kate Stone, Paper Conservator for the Royal Collection,  demonstrates the extraordinary skill and fine workmanship required to repair an ancient document. This is another of those ‘how […]

The Atlanta gadfly music critic Mark Gresham reviewed the Mozart C minor Mass: … Stutzmann’s conducting visibly lacked precision, which was evident right from the opening bars, where the violas were not quite in sync. […]

Dinin Arts and Epstein Fox Performances have formed a partnership that unites the Dinin Arts roster and EFP’s classical division. EFP has a big hitter in Terence Blanchard. Dinin does good string quartets. Here’s the […]

The US violinist has announced she is still struggling after several months to recover from a trapped nerve. She has been replaced on the Berlin Phil tour at the last minute by the Norwegian Vilde […]