Cleveland musicians call in union
Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music have voted 56-25 to join the American Federation of Musicians. ‘This is a historic vote and a signal to the world that CIM will remain one of the […]
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Conductor waves white flag at Vienna Opera
So vociferous were the boos last night for Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo that, before Elisabeth’s third-act aria Tu che le vanita’, conductor Philippe Jordan speared a white cloth with his baton […]
Ruth Leon recommends… All’s Well – Stratford Fest – Digital
Stratford Fest – All’s Well Click here to rent or subscribe Set against the backdrop of the First World War, this Stratford Festival production reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy of unrequited love. In a daring adaptation by Scott […]
Lucas Debargue returns to Insula – in Chopin
Chopin, Schumann Lucas Debargue (piano); Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). Auditorium Patrick Devedjian, La Seine Musicale, Paris, 24.09.2024 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (1830) Schumann Symphony No. 4 in […]
Investing in the magic of Purcell’s music: The Fairy Queen from The Sixteen at Cadogan Hall
Dorset Garden Theatre in 1673 where Purcell’s The Fairy Queen premiered Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Antonia Christophers, Matthew Brook, Robin Blaze, Katy Hill, Alexandra Kidgell, Charlotte Mobbs, Mark Dobell, Oscar Golden Lee,, Ben Davies, The Sixteen, […]
Barbican Hall – BBCSO with Sakari Oramo
In recent years Sakari Oramo has established himself as a Mahlerian of distinction and tonight’s realisation proved a quietly audacious mix of trends old and new. Not that there was much attempt to emulate the […]
Dresden gets 15 million Euros to start a Wagner Academy
The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media has signed a cheque for a the new Richard Wagner Academy at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Jan Vogler’s festival has become the space-lab for trying out Wagner operas in […]
Igor Levit at Royal Festival Hall – Bach, Brahms and Beethoven
Leave aside for a moment the completeness of Igor Levit’s musicianship and consider the stamina and sheer physicality of a recital played without an interval – which, given his programme, would have been welcome – […]
LSO St Luke’s to shut for a year
I attended the former church last night for a concert by the ‘radical’ Manchester Collective, a string quartet playing works by contemporary British composers. Nothing to frighten the horses, though I was much taken with […]
Angela Hewitt at Turner Sims
Angela Hewitt’s recital brought together music variously conceived to entertain a royal patron, serve as a teaching manual, and consolidate youthful works which demonstrated a formidable keyboard technique. At some forty minutes Brahms’s Third Piano […]
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