classical music

Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod’s Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world today, just behind Carmen. But […]

The Halle Orchestra in Manchester has recruited the accomplished Rachel Helleur-Simcock as Leader of the Cello Section. A former principal cello of Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Rachel has also been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic […]

The Dutch orchestra, where Lahav Shani is chief conductor until next year, has issueda very strong statement against the Flanders Festival ban on his performance with the Munich Philharmonic. Here’s the unequivocal Rotterdam text: Rob […]

Message received: Following the cancellation by the Flanders Festival of the Munich Philharmonic’s scheduled concert in Belgium, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and its General Director, Baptiste Charroing, confirm that the concert with the orchestra in […]

Mannes School of Music is planning a US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Silent Serenade. Written in the late 1940s when Korngold was at the peak of his Hollywood success, it failed to make […]

This is a message from Jan van den Borre, of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, to members of the Dutch Culture Council. Van den Borre is the incoming director of the Flanders Festival. Things […]

Bangor Cathedral in Wales has suspended its choir after it sang a ‘Canticle of Indignation’ about job losses. The Cathedral said: ‘Bangor Cathedral is experiencing a significant shortfall between expenditure and income. This has far […]

The Estonian modernist-turned-minimalist was born on September 11, 1935. His influence on music today is more widespread than any living composer. The post Arvo Pärt, 90 today appeared first on Slippedisc.

A group of musicians led by the harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani put up a petition overnight, urging the Ghent Festival of Flanders to reconsider its cancellation of a Munich Philharmonic concert, a ban imposed because the […]