Yunchan tops Apple pops
Just in: Yunchan Lim’s album of Chopin Etudes has been named the most popular album in 2024 on the app. The Decca Classics recording of the Van Cliburn winner has remained a consistent presence on […]
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The most toured new piano concerto
Top-selling pianist Vikingur Ólafsson will premiere John Adams’s new piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on January 16, with repeats on two successive nights. The concerto is titled After the Fall, and look what […]
Hugues Gall sketch fetches half a million
When the former opera chief of Geneva and Paris died in May, followed days later by his husband, the couple were found to own an unknown drawing by Paul Verlaine of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. […]
English lyricism and dramatic power: the varied songs of Thomas Pitfield from James Gilchrist and Nathan Williamson
The Songs of Thomas Pitfield: James Gilchrist, Nathan Williamson; Divine ArtReviewed 3 December 2024 Nearly 30 songs by a composer whose life almost spanned the 20th century. Full of lyrical impulse and often setting his […]
Melbourne shakes out board, calls in ex-BBC boss
The deeply troubled Melbourne Symphony has called in consultants KPMG to see what went wrong. The chairman an d three other board members will step down. Richard Wrigley, former head of the BBC Philharmonic, has […]
On Radio 3, Sean Rafferty bows out early
The long-serving drivetime presenter has told listeners that this will be his last week, and Friday his final show. Sean Rafferty has been moving traffic on the classical channel since 1997. He made no secret […]
Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” from Florence
Described, accurately, by the notes as a “Parisian noir,” Il tabarro,” intended as the first of Puccini’s Trittico (a cycle of three opera designed to be performed in on evening).We reviewed the ENO incarnation of […]
Don’t Miss Live Janáček Opera from Brno
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček is Janáček’s most overtly comic opera, the comedy essentially deriving from the confrontation of Mr Brouček with worlds beyond his limited imagination. The effect, however, is rather different in the […]
Please, teacher: Stringing along with the profs
The Korean violist Sara Kim is leaving Leipzig to be professor of viola and chamber music in Bremen. Sara (pictured) starts in April. Ex-Bavarian Radio violist German Tcakulov is now viola professor at Salzburg’s Mozarteum […]
LA Phil debuts composer with one billion streams
Message received: The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announced today an addition to the Walt Disney Concert Hall 2024/25 season: Gregory Alan Isakov with the LA Phil on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 8PM. This one-night-only […]
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