It’s always intrigued me why, if Schubert was such a fine composer of songs (and he was), why don’t we hear his operas? There are quite a few, after all, so why not start with […]
Created to promote cultural understanding across continents, Opera for Peace works to develop the next generation of opera professionals to become ambassadors of important values, acting as a positive influence on society and future generations. […]
How are the mighty fallen: Choral music by Giovanni Bononcini; Rowan Pierce, Esther Lay, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting, Giles Underwood, Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Owen Rees; Signum Classics25 June 2024 […]
The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80. He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and […]
The veteran Alain Lanceron has signed Nathalie Stutzmann to Warner Classics & Erato. Her debut recording will be Dvorak with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, out in August. The post Label news: Stutzmann gets record deal […]
The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili has walked out on HarrisonParrott after 27 years. She has joined up instead with second-gen management at Impresariat Simmenauer in Berlin. Her transition may be linked to the recent retirement […]
The Audite International Conducting Masterclass takes place this week in Budapest with the Solti Chamber Orchestras. The tutors are Jonathan Brett (UK) and Maciej Zoltowski (Poland/US). Of the 15 candidates selected, eight are young women. […]
Remember the concertmaster in Schleswig-Holstein who fed rat poison to his mother and two colleagues? He was jailed for six and a half years last October. Now, the federal superior court has ordered a retrial. […]
A couple of years before Covid, the NY Times stopped reviewing all the classical music that’s fit to print. After a century or so of covering the musical waterfront, the paper scrapped smaller venues and […]