classical music

The Spanish conductor Pablo González has joined the Maestro Arts agency in London. Until now, he has been Principal Conductor of Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, from 2019 to 2023, and Music Director of […]

Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music regrets that, due to health reasons, Yuja Wang is unable to perform with Víkingur Ólafsson tonight and tomorrow. The sold-out concerts will go ahead with Ólafsson playing the Goldberg Variations. In addition, the Conservatory […]

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Ed Gardner has issued a public apology, via Italian media and slippedisc.com, to chorus members at Teatro San Carlo in Naples whom he falsely accused of being associated with two […]

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Shocking survey laid out in the Church Times by the The Royal School of Church Music. Most music in churches in England is unpaid: 92 per cent of choirs, 50 per cent of piano/keyboard players, […]

The Fremch organ composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-86) was a shy and retiring man who did little to promote his music other than playing it in church. This is the composer playing his Suite opus 5. […]

PLAY is a low-cost Icelandic airline flying between Europe and North America. Without instruments, apparently. The violinist Pétur Björnsson had this experience: I just had access to PLAY flight to Berlin with a violin on […]

The Russian cellist Nina Kotova lost her grip at IMG Artists when its co-woner, her husband Barrett Wissman, was ousted by his Russian partner Alexander Shustorovich. No-one grieved for Wissman, a self-confessed fraudster. But Kotova, […]

The death was made known today of the long-serving Chief Conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimír Válek. He was 89 years old. Founder of the Dvořák Chamber Orchestra in 1970, Valek was in […]