From the China Daily: When 83-year-old conductor Riccardo Muti reflects on his musical training, he is proud of his teachers, especially Antonino Votto (1896-1985), the Italian conductor who was Arturo Toscanini’s assistant at Milan’s Teatro […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My string quartet is not in a good place. The founding violinist is fairly distant with the rest of us, who came in to replace her original partners […]
We have been notified of the death, aged 90, of the distinguished composer Siegfried Thiele, a man who maintained a successful career under both Communism and capitalism. Born in Chemnitz, he initially combined composing for […]
Musicians in the Munich Symphony Orchestra, ranking fourth in the city’s hierarchy, have discovered that they are paid 800 Euros a month less than the lowest paid in the other orchestra. They have published an […]
Berlin’s Konzarthaus has called off its Projections festival in February due to the effects of budget cuts amounting to 1.8 million Euros. The Konzerthaus said: ‘This cancellation makes the far-reaching effects of the current cuts […]
A concert at the Teatro Maggio Musicale to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death was cancelled due to a general strike of public workers across Italy. Politics came first. The post Florence dishonours […]
The musicians picked their moment to blank the centernary of Puccini’s death. What should have been a recital with orchestra by Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Netrebko was called off at five minutes past eight on […]
Gustav Holst by Herbert Lambert, bromide print, 1921NPG P109 © National Portrait Gallery, London The songs of Gustav Holst: Katie Bray, Ruairi Bowen, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 29 November […]
Khachaturian, Prokofiev Nemanja Radulović (violin); Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Philharmonie de Paris, France, 26.11.2024 Khachaturian Violin Concerto in D minor (1940) Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 100 (1944) A […]
La forza del destino is an opera from Verdi’s heyday. Premiered four years after Un ballo in maschera, a very special moment in his production, it coincides with the prevailing taste for the exoticism of other worlds. Only […]
