A number of reports are suggesting that the Lang Lang effect is wearing off among the Chinese middle-classes. New piano sales in China are thought to be down to half of the peak 400,000 and […]
The Russian soprano will return to London in Turandot next year, at the instigation of incoming music director Jakub Hrusa. Netrebko has been suspended for three years, since the Putin invasion of Ukraine. Her return […]
Long the darling of BBC Radio 3, the social media orgaist Anna Lapwood has signed with the opposition for the Easter weekend. Lapwood will host The Royal Albert Hall of Fame or three 60-minute programmes, […]
The Easter Festival was founded by Herbert von Karajan with his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in residence. Things went bellyup a few years back when the Berlin Phil accepted a better offer from Baden-Baden. Next season […]
The BBC Philharmonic has lost Mark Wigglesworth next Saturday ‘for personal reasons’. Flying in will be Yoel Gamzou, known for the sensitive performing edition he had published of Mahler’s 10th symphony. It’s his UK symphonic […]
This weekend, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the New World Symphony in what he has announced as the last concerts of his life. Michael, who is dealing with the recurrence of brain cancer, founded the orchestra […]
A long time ago I was advised that anyone who wants to get an interview with Margerich needs to hang around with her a few times at three in the morning and she might, eventually, […]
The Belgian/American conductor Giulio Cilona, 29, is stepping in for Maestro Fabio Luisi who has withdrawn for family reasons at the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Torino. He will conduct Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto […]
Message from the Munich Philharmonic: This week we are going on tour to Musikverein Wien & Müpa Budapest but Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla unfortunately had to cancel our upcoming concert tour due to an urgent family situation. […]