Johann Christoph Friedrich: Six Sonatas “für das Clavier mit Begleitung einer Flöte oder Violine”; Ashley Solomon, Jochewed Schwarz; Meridian RecordsReviewed 20 January 2025 With a poised fluidity and an imagination hovering between Baroque and Classical, […]
1984 is a 1956 film loosely based on Orwell’s novel. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson, and starring Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave. Both audio […]
George Orwell Click here to watch Perhaps the most influential English writer of the 20th century and one of the most important chroniclers of British culture of his generation, George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in […]
Yale School of Music comes to New York this Monday. “Rippling with high-energy percussion and brass playing and a fluid interplay of polished strings as well as winds…” is how The New York Times described […]
The Seattle Symphony’s President & CEO, Krishna Thiagarajan, has stepped down, along with the CFO/COO, Cheronne Wong and VP HR/Chief Diversity Officer, Paul Johnson. The organisation has endured three turbulent years, which saw a music […]
The American violinist, sidelined with a trapped nerve, has cancelled a Munich Philharmonic tour. Hilary has been out since last July. The Munich Phil say: We are very sorry to announce that Hilary Hahn had […]
There is a catch, however. Culture Senator Carsten Brosda tells Backstage Classical that some of the new money mwill go on a hip-hop academy and on supporting music clubs down the Reeperbahn, where the brothels […]
Its director, Maria Rosario Jackson, resigned this morning after three years at the helm. Donald Trump promised to abolish the arts-giving agency last time. Ms Jackson just made it a whole lot easier. On leave […]
The conductor Susanna Mälkki, left high and dry when Mark Newbanks closed his agency has week, has landed at Intermusica. Her admirer Deborah Borda is one of its directors. She will be represented by Dennis […]
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