The academic Geoff Baker, emeritus professor at Royal Holloway University of London, has published a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the music education system that has become a propaganda instrument of a criminal regime. […]
The ostracised Russian soprano has uploaded to Youtube a film marking her 30th anniversary on stage. It is made and clunkily narrated by her present manager, Miguel Esteban. The film studiously avoids the hostilty she […]
Warner-owned Erato have issued an album of Sir Stephen Hough performing Mozart’s 9 & 21 piano concertos on Spotify. The music has been chopped into tracks of between 41 seconds and 1:07 to maximise streaming […]
The Swedish music app has published results for the final quarter of 2024, its first full year of profitability. Revenue rose 16 per cent year-on-year to €4.2 billion. Users grew by 12 percent to 675 […]
The Musikverein in Vienna has been home to the music publisher Universal Edition since 1914. That arrangement has now come to an end, reports Axel Brüggemann. The publisher has (been) given notice to leave by […]
The Italian Viola Association has shared news of the death of Massimo Paris, principal viola of I Musici da Roma from 1977 to 2022 and founder member of the Stradivari Quartet. Massimo, who was 71, […]
The highly accomplished Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugała turns 90 this week. Never a limelight seeker, he was music director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and of the Turkish presidential orchestra. But his closest involvements were […]
That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne. It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La […]
A study by researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome has detected ‘a trend of simplification across all music genres’. ‘Our analysis indicates that even enduring genres like classical and jazz have undergone a noticeable […]
An anonymous donor has made one of the largest known bequests to an orchestra, and it’s going to Sarasota, in the state of Florida, The money will go to building a 1,700-seat concert hall and […]
