Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]
Message from Cecilia Bartoli: During the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, you will hear a selection of music spanning five centuries, featuring works that were either written in Venice, created for Venice or inspired by the […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a public school orchestra director. I am pretty young, I graduated a couple of years ago, and then got a job (really nice one) in the […]
Sam Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas, Variations, Jeux d’eau, Hardy in Love; Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Huw Watkins, Sam Rudd-Jones, Ed Lyon; Prima FacieReviewed 4 November 2024 A remarkable debut, a disc of chamber music by 25-year-old […]
Entitled simply “Quartets,” this disc presents three of Joseph Phibbs‘ quartets, performed by the Piatti Quartet.The First (2014) is available on a Champs Hilll release, also by the Piatti Quartet, Albion Refracted, where it shares […]
As long as I live – Cabaret Convention I didn’t get to the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual Cabaret Convention in New York this year because of a scheduling conflict but I was there in spirit […]
press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th […]
A seriously destabilised Winchester Cathedral, undergoing a thorough bishop’s investigation over bullying allegations, has extended its interim director of music by one year. It says this will ‘allow the Cathedral time to develop its aspirations’. […]
The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos. The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]
The headline is taken from a New Yorker opinion by Alex Ross on the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. We beg to disagree. Ives has fallen out of favour in the 21st century, and justly so. […]
