Peaky Blinders is coming to Paris
The cult BBC series on Birmingham criminal gangs is about to hit the City of Lights next March in dance form, from Ballets Rambert. Looks even cultier than the original The post Peaky Blinders […]
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World’s oldest radio orchestra?
Denmark started broadcasting in 1925 and DR immediately adopted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra as its radio ensemble. The BBC Symphony was not founded until 1930. The Danes will take a centennial tour around European […]
A rare chance to hear Mahler’s Schubert interpretation
In the 1890s, between symphonies, Gustav Mahler tried his hand ‘improving’ string quartets by Beethoven and Schubert, in adaptations for string orchestra. They don’t get heard much these days. The post A rare chance to […]
Maxim Vengerov: At ten years old, I played for my country
The violinist tells David Krauss on Speaking Soundly that he always did everything to the max. Growing up in Siberia, he had to play in gloves. At some point, he punched his teacher… Listen here. […]
London’s Barbican gets £191 million – and still needs more
The City of London has voted to spend £191m on renewing the Barbican arts centre, having abandoned plans to build a new concerthall eslewhere within its boundaries. But £191m is just 80 percent is what […]
French jazz legend dies, 97
Versailles yesterday witnessed the death of Martial Solal, an epic figure in French jazz and film. A Jewish pianist from Algiers, he mingled in 1950s Paris with Django Reinhardt and Sydney Bechet, forming his own […]
How Notre-Dame’s organ got the kiss of life
This is the official blessing for the reopening of the great organ of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Not everyone was impressed by the esoteric repertoire, least of all some world leaders. Here’s a reasoned critique. […]
Banned Russian bass is given a job
The Bolshoi and Marinsky star Ildar Abdrazakov, banned in the West for his support of Putin’s wars, has been appointed artistic director of the Sebastopol State Opera and Ballet Theatre, currently under construction. Sebastopol, a […]
ENO draws singer wrath with unfunny Insta posts
What were English National Opera chiefs thinking when they approved a run of Instagram posts that reduce the art form to puerile caricature? The posts are neither funny nor intelligent. Several singers are expressing rage. […]
Death of Japanese Salzburg winner
The composer Michio Mamiya, winner of a grand prix at the 1974 Salzburg Festival with his opera Narukami, has died at the age of 95. He was most widely known for composing anime cartoon films. […]
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