ECM Records has announced the death of 20th-century piano specialist Herbert Henck at the age of 76. Henck released eight albums of modern rep. Herbert Henck, brilliant pianist, dedicated interpreter of modern music, and an […]
The intercity shuttle that is English National Opera has named former Barbican artistic director Louise Jeffreys to plug the gap while its board searches vainly for a big beast who can raise money from public […]
The Mediterranean Département of Hérault, which includes the city of Montpellier, has abolished its arts grants, worth 6 million Euros a year. The leader of the socialist council Kléber Mesquida has promised to eliminate by […]
Major names have signed on to conduct the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras in their first full season since firing the founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. The season includes Mozart with Marc Minkowski, Bach with Masaaki […]
The Board of Opera Australia has parted company with C EO Fiona Allan after just over three years. She’s looking for another job abroad. Heavily massaged statements follow: OA Chair Rod Sims said: ‘Fiona’s tireless […]
Never Doubt I Love – Stratford Festival Click here to subscribe Never Doubt I Love is an innovative new series created for Stratfest@Home by Ontario’s Stratford Festival. Richard Ouzounian and Nicholas Shields push creative boundaries with this captivating four-part original series, inspired […]
The new concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as of this week is Tjeerd Top, assistant principal violinist of the Royal Concertgebouworkest. He says: ‘After twenty years with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO), I started this […]
From an interview with Ivan Hewitt in the Telegraph: ‘Beethoven … was so original, but he could only achieve what he did because of a great discovery of the West. It is the system of […]
The 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will take place in Fort Worth, Texas, in March. A long list of 77 pianists has been finalised. One third of them are Chinese. Four are accredited as […]
This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin. I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling. I can just about […]
