PROM 67 Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, Shostakovich Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 09.09.2024 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ (1934) Schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1935/6) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in […]
Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
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Greg Beardsell and National Youth Choir [Photo: Belinda Lawley] It is all change at the National Youth Choir as three principal conductors reach the end of their five-year contracts and will be finishing in their […]
Anja Mittermüller was named First Prize winner last night the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. She’s 21. Just about old enough to accept a drink from the sponsor. The post Austrian mezzo wins bubbly […]
Swiss based Artists Management Company has signed the Berlin Philharmonic’s assistant conductor Christian Blex. Blex, 31, has come up through the Siemens Conductors Scholarship of the Karajan Academy. The post Berlin Phil assistant baton gets […]
A pair of public-minded investors, John and Jody Arnhold, have given $15m to support Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise program and $5m more for jazz. Their hope is that it will ‘bring further vibrancy to a school […]
The Dutch orchestra has just released named of its 14 Academy members for the coming season. All are EU citizens, bar one American: Lena Aigner (Austria): violin Katharina Von Behren (Germany): violin Pauline Herold (Germany): […]
Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas One thing I’m definitely going to do when I get home to New York next week is to visit the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings […]
Bayreuth Baroque Gala Concert: Bruno de Sá; Il Pomo d’Oro / Alfia Bakieva (violin / director). Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuh, 06.09.2024 Handel Gloria in Excelsis Deo, HWV deest (1706/07?) Vivaldi In furoe iusissimae irae, RV 626 (1720s) Handel Aci, […]
Later this month violinist Jorge Jiménez and his ensemble Tercia Realidad are releasing their disc, Farinelli’s Violin on Pan Classics. The disc features arias writtens for the castrato Farinelli in new versions where it is […]
