We have been notified of the passing of Mikhail Muntian, a prolific Russian keyboard player who toured as regular accompanist to the violist Yuri Bashmet. Muntian started out as harpsichordist in Rudolf Barshai’s Moscow Chamber […]
Founded just over three years ago by Jack Bazalgette and Jack Crozier, through the noise presents informal crowdfunded classical gigs to local communities across the UK and beyond. the company’s Autumn 2024 season features over 50 […]
The Canadian cellist Amanda Forsyth has taken to publishing pictures of herself enjoying the summer night life in New York, her fans report. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amanda […]
We are hearing from several sources that Eberhard Friedrich resigned last night as director of the festival chorus. His resgination came in the interval of Parsifal and the chorus demonstratively applauded him from the stage […]
There are signs that Russia’s cultural isolation may be easing. The Bolshoi has been invited to Serbia and Thailand next month. Its new chief Valery Gergiev is pulling out all the stops to break out […]
Robert Jindra has resigned as chief conductor of the Košice State Philharmonic, in Slovakia. The Czech maestro had previouslky issued a blast at the country’s Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová for dismissing the heads of the […]
In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “You try lots of things,” […]
Statement by the organisation representing most European opera houses, relating to the political crisis in Slovakia: Opera Europa is deeply shocked and gravely concerned by the abrupt decision on August 6th by Slovakia’s culture minister, […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Franz Liszt has been cancelled by the world’s orchestras, probably for something he said on social media. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a Liszt orchestral […]
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Britten: War Requiem – Allan Clayton, Natalya Romaniw, Antonio Pappano, Will Liverman, London Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms with chorus directors Mariana Rosas and Neil Ferris (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Britten: War Requiem; Natalya Romaniw, […]
