Friends are mourning the passing of Brigitte Marger (Mondoloni), one of the kindest yet most effective members of the Boulez circle in Paris. Brigitte was director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and later of the Cité […]
Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten The two most significant composers of their generation – Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland – both died this week in, respectively, 1976 and 1990. (So did Cicero but he died […]
Friends are sharing reports of the death yesterday of Marlos Nobre, internationally known composer and conductor who crossed between classical and Amazonian styles with felicitous ease and beauty. He was 85. Surprising that he isn’t […]
Just in: Yunchan Lim’s album of Chopin Etudes has been named the most popular album in 2024 on the app. The Decca Classics recording of the Van Cliburn winner has remained a consistent presence on […]
Top-selling pianist Vikingur Ólafsson will premiere John Adams’s new piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on January 16, with repeats on two successive nights. The concerto is titled After the Fall, and look what […]
When the former opera chief of Geneva and Paris died in May, followed days later by his husband, the couple were found to own an unknown drawing by Paul Verlaine of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. […]
The deeply troubled Melbourne Symphony has called in consultants KPMG to see what went wrong. The chairman an d three other board members will step down. Richard Wrigley, former head of the BBC Philharmonic, has […]
The long-serving drivetime presenter has told listeners that this will be his last week, and Friday his final show. Sean Rafferty has been moving traffic on the classical channel since 1997. He made no secret […]
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček is Janáček’s most overtly comic opera, the comedy essentially deriving from the confrontation of Mr Brouček with worlds beyond his limited imagination. The effect, however, is rather different in the […]
The Korean violist Sara Kim is leaving Leipzig to be professor of viola and chamber music in Bremen. Sara (pictured) starts in April. Ex-Bavarian Radio violist German Tcakulov is now viola professor at Salzburg’s Mozarteum […]
