Barenboim’s back in the podium

Sunday’s annual charity fundraiser by the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier did not contain a single work by a German or Austrian composer. Very outward looking, especially towards the US. Here’s the rundown: George Enescu […]

There were protests during Christmas mass at Freiburg Cathedral over clerical plans to remove the popular head of the Choir School, Boris Böhmann, after 22 years’ service. ‘The Holy Masses were deliberately disrupted, and there […]

The Israel composer Oded Zehavi attended the dress rehearsal today of György Kurtag’s late opera, Fin de Partie: There are similarities between Endgame and Wozzeck. Musical interpretation of great literary text is not easy: it […]