From our Nordic correspondent: Since the start of the war, two or three ballet groups have been touring Sweden and Finland under Ukrainian flags, collecting money for the national defence. It now appears all the […]
A recording of piano music by the esoteric Scotsman Ronald Stevenson was last night awarded Classical Record of the Year at Grammis 2025, the Swedish record industry’s annual bash. The recording, on the Finnish label […]
The municipal council of Pforzheim in southwest Germany has appointed Daniel Inbal as its theatre’s next General Music Director. Inbal, whose father Eliahu enjoyed a far-flung international career, has been Kapellmeister for the past 15 […]
Virginia Woolf 84 years ago this week on 28th March, Virginia Woolf aged 59 took her own life by walking into the River Ouse with stones in her pockets because, having suffered from recurring bouts […]
How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her. Of his own radically complex leading character, […]
The North Carolina Symphony is mourning Erik Dyke who played double bass in the orchestra for almost 50 years. He was well known around Raleigh for cycling through town with a 20-pound double bass strapped […]
Washington National Opera and the National Symphony just announced next season’s plans under new management. WNO is putting on Robert Ward’s opera of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a reconfoguration of the 1650s Salem witch-hunt as […]
Unwanted musical instruments present a recycling challenge. Musical instruments are typically made of high value materials such as rare woods and metals, that are complicated to manufacture and contain intricate parts made from a range […]
The London Philharmonic last night played works by Saariaho, Prokofiev and Nielsen at the Royal Festival Hall. The conductor was the underrated Finn Hannu Lintu and the soloist was Alina Ibragimova. If any European orchestra […]
The singer-songwriter posted this reminiscence four years ago: Fun fact, the titular line for “You Can Call Me Al” was inspired by an amusing misunderstanding at a party. One evening in the early 1970s, French […]
