Colin Matthews Whilst most people are still frantically planning for Christmas, the good folk at Britten Pears Arts are thinking much further ahead and have announced the highlights of the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival which runs […]
The budget label made its critical breakthrough in the late 1990s with a cycle of Bruckner symphonies conducted by the little-known Canada-based conductor Georg Tintner. A Hitler exile from Vienna, Tintner brought idiomatic assurance to […]
Paul Van Nevel, founder of Belgium’s early-music Huelgas Ensemble in 1971, has named his successor. The German tenor Achim Schulz, a singer in the ensemble for two decades, will gradually take up conducting responsibilities. Van […]