Edinburgh Council, led by Labour Mayor Jane Meagher, has announced measures to limit visits to the city: From 24 July 2026, a 5% fee will be applied to the cost of overnight accommodation in Edinburgh, […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]
Dear Alma, I am in my final year of my music degree, and I have a problem with my assigned pianist. She is the wife of a Professor, and the worst pianist that they have […]
The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design. Newly interpreted galleries on three floors reveal connections across the Wing’s increasingly hemispheric holdings—from […]
Commissioned by Staatsoper Hannover, the opera Echo 72. Israel in München is produced by a creative team with an excellent track record. The libretto is written by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of the most often performed dramatists of […]
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The Queen of Motown is heading for Manchester this summer. She will perform in the Co-op Live Arena, backed by the Halle Orchestra, England’s second-oldest symphonic ensemble. The tour is titled Diana Ross: A Symphonic […]
Colin Jacobsen was never going to be rank and file. At an early age he founded the the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and the collaborative orchestra The Knights, which he co-leads with his cellist brother […]
By Barry Lenson We find it reassuring that young Americans are still deciding to become composers. It is more wonderful still that at least one of these younger Americans, Jennifer Higdon, is composing works that […]
Nabil Shehata has just taken over the artistic direction of the Barenboim-Said Akademie Orchestra. He’s a former principal bass in the Berlin Philharmonic. Barenboim said: ‘I am very happy and grateful that Nabil Shehata has […]
