The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, among the most prestigious in France, has been won by the Korean pianist Kim Sae-hyun. The 17 year-old played Rachmaninoff’s third concerto in the final with the Orchestra of the Republican Guard, […]
The leading Mexican conductor Enrique Batiz died yesterday in his home country, aged 82. He founded the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in 1971 and directed it over four decades, except during the 1980s when […]
Responding to Wigmore Hall’s withdrawal from its patronage, Arts Council Enngland’s CEO Darren Henley said this: ‘The idea that we don’t believe in, celebrate, invest in classical music is nonsense. We are here for every […]
The death has been notified of Isaac Chueke, an international conductor formerly associated with the Teatre San Carlo in Naples. He was long resident in Paris where he founded the Groupe de Recherche Musiques Brésiliennes […]
The passing has been recorded of Vladimir Shcherbakov, tenor soloist at the Bolshoi from 1977 to 1991. He was 86. His greatest fame came with a recording of the Soviet remake of Glinka’s A Life […]
Kelli O’Hara Here is a terrific performance of the title song from the great Broadway musical, She Loves Me. It comes from this year’s Broadway Backwards, the annual one-night-only event produced by Broadway Cares. It celebrates LGBTQ+, […]
Hildur Guðnadóttir in Concert Hildur Guðnadóttir (trench cello); London Contemporary Orchestra / Robert Ames (conductor). Guðnadóttir Tár. Without Sinking: Opaque. Saman: Liður. Chernobyl: Vichnaya Pamyat. Fólk Faer Andlit. A Haunting in Venice: Confession. Music from Joker […]
After five years in charge, the chief conductor has given a rare interview to the elite orchestra’s website: Are there aspects of Mahler’s personality to which you have felt particularly drawn? His Jewishness has always […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic: … there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I’m stuck between two cellists. One is a Zionist, the other pro-Palestinian. They no longer talk. I am the one expected to hold the section together, even though I am […]
