Is Trifonov the best at Cage’s 4’33”?

For his last concert as music director at SWR in Stuttgart, the Putin conductor Teodor Currentzis chose Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Nothing controversial about that. Until a Russian tenor in the SWR Vokal-Ensemble, Alexander Yudenkov, […]

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 […]

The orchestra and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have chosen three new cellists – one Chinese, one from Taiwan and an Israeli. Jiayin He, from Shanghai, is presently principal cello in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. […]