The Lebrecht Interview returns to BBC Radio 3
After a nine-year hiatus, I am returning to Radio 3 this Saturday to present the first of a new series of Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in the music world. My first subject is Michael […]
Slipped Disc
Why a composer is loved over there, and not over here
I find it rather uplifting that, in a global market, a great composer can be revered in one section of the world and totally ignored in the rest. It is entirely to the credit of […]
Thomas Allen has sung his last performance
An epoch has ended. Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne: Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne stage that this had been his final performance; I wish I had been there. […]
A soprano turns sour
The US soprano Alessandra Marc is getting a little overheated about the upcoming election. Her latest social media spouts include: IF YOU’RE STUPID AND GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR KAMALA , YOU AND ALL YOUR […]
Failed US orchestra fails again
The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was dissolved just over two years ago after the board failed to reach agreement with the musicians. The players promptly regrouped into the San Antonio Philharmonic, excluding all former staff […]
Spanish cellist wins in Leipzig
The cello section of the 24th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition has been won by Víctor García García, performing on a Baroque cello. Garcia, 30, takes home 10,000 Euros and the promise of future solo […]
Concertmaster to head LA Academy
The Colburn School’s Music Academy is to be headed by the US violinist Margaret Batjer, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1998. Batjer, 65, will give up her professorship at USC Thornton School […]
Anna Netrebko sends a signal
The soprano, presently divorcing tenor Yusif Eyvazov, posted the attached selfie on her Instagram account last week. The picture was unsaved and disappeared after 24 hours. Plenty of fans circulated it, however. And Austria’s Kronenzeitung […]
New music mourns Wolgang Rihm
Among many tributes today to the prolific German composer: Leipzig Volkszeitung: The last great German composer. Michael Haefliger: Wolfgang Rihm, the leader of our Lucerne Festival Academy passed away last night. We are in tears […]
John Eliot Gardiner: The first interview
Henry Mance of the Financial Times finds a man with a road-map to Canossa. Sample: Remorse is essential to redemption. This is Gardiner’s first interview since the incident. He hits the right notes — mostly. […]
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