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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
During a Handel & Haydn Society concert at Boston’s Symphony Hall in May 2019, a 9-year-old boy shouted ‘wow!’ at the end of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music. H&H president David Snead, moved by the response, […]
This week’s revamped competition under Israeli president Yaron Kohlberg will feature a round of pop tunes in an attempt to broaden the public appeal of an increasingly esoteric enterprise. Kohlberg says: ‘People really love the […]
The Portuguese virtuoso Cristiana Neves Custódio has been named princpal horn of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. She’s currently touring with them in Holland and Spain. Cristiana, 27, previously enjoyed a spell with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Klaus Tennstedt fled East Germany in his mid-40s in 1971 and hung around for half a decade before anyone noticed he was a truly remarkable conductor – ‘last […]
From my latest essay in The Critic: The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one […]
Opera singers are sharing sad news of the death, on Thursday, of the legendary Benjamin Luxon. He was 85. A Cornishman from Redruth, Luxon created the role of Owen Wyngrave in an opera that Benjamin […]
