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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Tracey Thorn’s column in the New Statesman: The morning of the US election result I sat down at the piano and tried to play some Beethoven. Bearing in mind that I haven’t played the […]
La Divina was born on December 2, 1923. In Manhattan, where else? Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos it said on the birth certificate. The post Maria Callas 101 appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Rudolf Kempe Society has announced the death of Cordula Kempe, widow of the conductor and Artistic Director of the Rudolf Kempe Society. Cordula was 81. She was a most cheerful advocate of her late […]
The climate activist’s aura is fading as she gets mixed up in Middle East and other conflicts beyond her ken. But things are looking up for her Mum (pictured in 2014). Warner give her front […]
This may save a lot of rehearsal time. From today’s programme release: When the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell came across Kassandra, a 1983 novella by the East German author Christa Wolf, his initial idea was to […]
The festival published next summer’s plans this morning. The eye-catcher is an attempt by Peter Sellars to combine Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung with the finale of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, both written in 1909. […]
This is interesting. When the Bundesjugendorchestertours the UK in January it will be looking for ways to re-engage with British musicians who suffered the loss of the Erasmus programme after Brexit. Read this: The Bundesjugendorchester […]
