Ushers were sent out with these signs at last night’s CBSO concert of Dvorak Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances. It looks like the CBSO’s chief exec Emma Stenning has been forced to back down […]
We have received this message from the eminent violinist: Die Nachricht ist gleichzeitig erwartet und erschütternd traurig. Sofia bedeutete mir enorm viel -sie war (und das wird so bleiben) eine enorme Unterstützung auf meinem Lebensweg. […]
The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]
The authorities in Kazan have reported the death of Sofia Gubaidulina, a leader of her generation, at the age of 93. Friends tell us she died early this morning A contemplative, spiritual modernist, she was […]
The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim […]
From an interview with BR-Klassik: ‘I really wish more people would study music. Because in today’s world, we live with so much bad information; it’s really like an avalanche. And a person sitting at the […]
Backstage Classical reports that the trial of the former Maggio Musicale director is reaching its climax in Florence. Pereira is accused of misappropriating Maggio funds for unauthorised travel and relocation expenses and using the company’s […]
A couple of days after Asmik Grigorian pulled out of Munich’s Flying Dutchman at the end of this month, the Dutchman himself has cancelled. Gerald Finley is out. Nicholas Brownlee jumps in. Camilla Nylund replaces […]
We hear that Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won the principal flute audition at the Berllin Philharmonic. An announcement is forthcoming later today. Stefán will succeed Sebastian Jacot, who failed to […]
Cheltenham Music Festival 2023 Established in 1945 in the months following the Second World War, the Cheltenham Music Festival is celebrating 80 years this year. The festival was part of a post-war arts festival movement that also […]
