The BBC has signed easy-listening composer Eric Whitacre are artist in residence with the BBC Singers for the group’s centenary year. The BBC Singers were narrowly saved from abolition last year amid an unspurge of […]
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The Bath Festival Orchestra is reinventing itself as Chromatica Orchestra, and the new ensemble debuts at Battersea Arts Centre on Tuesday 8 October 2024. The ensemble focuses on gifted early-career musicians under the direction of […]
Bruckner BBC Singers / Owain Park (conductor); Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Peternko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.9.2024 Bruckner Os justi (1879). Locus iste (1869). Chrisus factus est (1884) Symphony No. 5 in B […]
Chanticleer Earlier this Summer, I had the delight of being part of a small audience at the Voces8 centre when the American male-voice ensemble, Chanticleer, music director Tim Keeler, recorded a concert for Live from […]
The independent artists manager Camilla Wehmeyer has joined Intermusica as Associate Director, Vocal & Opera, bringing 11 singers with her. A survivor of the collapse of Hazard Chase at the start of the pandemic, Wehmeyer […]
The Russian-based Greek conductor has been fading from sight since Putin invaded Ukraine. Although Salzburg and Baden-Baden maintain his residencies despite his dependence on Russian funds, Currentzis, 52, has struggled to maintain profile and his […]
The London end of AskonasHolt has signed the signature Austrian bass, Günther Groissböck. He was formerly with Nicola Kamphausen at Hilbert. Groissböck, 50 this month, warrants a higher global profile that he has obtained so […]
The windy old house in Lowestoft where Benjamin Britten was born and spent his childhood has been put up for sale at around £800,000. It has served for the past two decades as a seaview […]
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The Metropolitan Opera and Philadephia Orchestra conductor has been visiting his favourite Swiss gnomes with husband Pierre Tourville. Apparently, they now make his-and-his watches. (Not availablle in Swatch). Nezet was ‘welcomed into the Rolex family’ […]
