The Savonlinna soprano Iris Candelaria, 29, has been awarded the Finnish Cultural Foundation prize of 40,000 Euros for helping to build ‘a sustainable, pluralistic and multi-voiced Finland. She’s presently singing Merry Widow in Helsinki and […]
Merle Fahrholz has resigned after two years as intendant of the Essen Philharmonic and music theatre in western Germany. She’s 42 and there’s more to life than Essen. The post Essen, she’s had enough appeared […]
Newly uploaded by the LSO. The soloist is its principal cello. The post The Elgar concerto, by his own orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Mellon Foundation has launched a $35 million initiative for the preservation of jazz and its legacies. Among the bequests, we read, the fellowship will support 50 seasoned jazz artists aged 62 and older. Each […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Many composers have tried to improve on Schubert. Mahler made a string-orchestra version of the Death and the Maiden string quartet, Joseph Joachim orchestrated a four-hand piano sonata, […]
The tenor is a fan of his hometown football club. They have commissioned a new song for the club’s 125th anniversary and he’s recorded it with crowd and orchestra. Harry Kane will never get his […]
Message received: On April 20, 2025, acclaimed Black, Queer conductor Cailin Marcel Manson will take the podium at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage to lead the New England Symphonic Ensemble in the Carnegie Hall premiere […]
The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked. His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves […]
This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]
The floundering Cleveland Institute of Music has hired Tito Munoz to stand in for two years while it reorganises orchestral teaching. They put a bold face on it in a puffy announcement: Roll out the […]
