Jonas Kaufmann belts it out with Bayern Munich fans
The tenor is a fan of his hometown football club. They have commissioned a new song for the club’s 125th anniversary and he’s recorded it with crowd and orchestra. Harry Kane will never get his […]
classical music
Taking us on an emotional journey: Solomon’s Knot in Bach’s 1725 version of the St John Passion at Wigmore Hall
St Nicholas Church, LeipzigWhere Bach’s St John Passion first performed Bach: St John Passion (1725); Solomon’s Knot; Wigmore HallReviewed 26 February 2025 Sung from memory with remarkable emotional directness, at times this was close to […]
A Carnegie concert for the Trump era
Message received: On April 20, 2025, acclaimed Black, Queer conductor Cailin Marcel Manson will take the podium at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage to lead the New England Symphonic Ensemble in the Carnegie Hall premiere […]
Belgian composer, 85
The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked. His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves […]
Alastair Macaulay reviews two must-try-harders and a dud
This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]
Cleveland picks makeshift conductor
The floundering Cleveland Institute of Music has hired Tito Munoz to stand in for two years while it reorganises orchestral teaching. They put a bold face on it in a puffy announcement: Roll out the […]
Simon Rattle to Labour Government: Your AI plan will stunt music
The conductor is quoted in the Times this morning: ‘The government is in such a hurry to commoditise music on behalf of the AI companies they have failed to account for the thousands of hours […]
Opera is Us: Exploring the transformative power of music with Anna Starushkevych’s Music Will Save The World & a new film inspired by personal experience
“Consider the scenario where all live, organically-produced music, whether professional or amateur, suddenly vanished globally. The absence would profoundly affect people everywhere.” The above comes from a statement released by Music Will Save The World, […]
Now Grade II Listed, this unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh, was home to Imogen Holst, has links to her father, & was built by architects who worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain
9 Church Walk, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, home of Imogen Holst from 1964 to 1984 (Photo: © Historic England Archive) A relatively unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh, 9 Church Walk, has just been listed at Grade II […]
Albert Sammons plays Elgar
A coupling of the Elgar Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata today; plus, a truncated performance of the concerto, all led by Albert Sammons. Born in 1886 in West London, Sammons’ remarkable life includes leaving school […]
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