The costume department at Glyndebourne has specially created a dress for soprano Louise Alder to be worn for her performance at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 13 September 2025. The bespoke […]
Mannes School of Music is planning a US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Silent Serenade. Written in the late 1940s when Korngold was at the peak of his Hollywood success, it failed to make […]
This is a message from Jan van den Borre, of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, to members of the Dutch Culture Council. Van den Borre is the incoming director of the Flanders Festival. Things […]
Bangor Cathedral in Wales has suspended its choir after it sang a ‘Canticle of Indignation’ about job losses. The Cathedral said: ‘Bangor Cathedral is experiencing a significant shortfall between expenditure and income. This has far […]
The Estonian modernist-turned-minimalist was born on September 11, 1935. His influence on music today is more widespread than any living composer. The post Arvo Pärt, 90 today appeared first on Slippedisc.
A group of musicians led by the harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani put up a petition overnight, urging the Ghent Festival of Flanders to reconsider its cancellation of a Munich Philharmonic concert, a ban imposed because the […]
Schubert with friends Johann Baptist Jenger & Anselm Huttenbrenner – Chalk drawing, 1827, by Josef Eduard Teltscher Schubert: Schwanengesang, Piano Sonata in B flat D960; Matthias Goerne, David Fray; Wigmore HallReviewed 9 September 2025 Matthias […]
The Louisville conductor Teddy Abrams is to be Ojai’s next Artistic and Executive Director from September next year. He succeeds Ara Guzelimian, who has planned the next festival together with Esa-Pekka Salonen. Abrams, a protege […]
Ever since he parted from Yuja Wang, the multi-job Finnish conductor has been going out with a Norwegian violinist Amanda Håøy Horn. Amanda has been deputising in the strings of the Oslo Philharmonic, amid some […]
The footballer Jamie Vardy, as famous at his wife’s side in the law courts as he is on the pitch, has secured a free transfer this season to Italian Serie A club Cremonese. Both husband […]
