The Board of Opera Australia has parted company with C EO Fiona Allan after just over three years. She’s looking for another job abroad. Heavily massaged statements follow: OA Chair Rod Sims said: ‘Fiona’s tireless […]
Here is a disc of three magnificent performances of three Bach cantatas on the Signum label. superbly recorded in Norwood, London. The Oxford Bach Soloists is directed by Tom Hammond-Davies; Nick Pritchard is the fervent […]
Never Doubt I Love – Stratford Festival Click here to subscribe Never Doubt I Love is an innovative new series created for Stratfest@Home by Ontario’s Stratford Festival. Richard Ouzounian and Nicholas Shields push creative boundaries with this captivating four-part original series, inspired […]
The new concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as of this week is Tjeerd Top, assistant principal violinist of the Royal Concertgebouworkest. He says: ‘After twenty years with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO), I started this […]
From an interview with Ivan Hewitt in the Telegraph: ‘Beethoven … was so original, but he could only achieve what he did because of a great discovery of the West. It is the system of […]
The 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will take place in Fort Worth, Texas, in March. A long list of 77 pianists has been finalised. One third of them are Chinese. Four are accredited as […]
Jacques Hétu: Symphony No. 5; Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Alexander Shelley; AnalektaReviewed 29 January 2025 Premiered three weeks after his death, Canadian composer Jacques Hétu’s massive symphony […]
This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin. I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling. I can just about […]
Scherzo reports that the Spanish-resident Venezuelan conductor will conduct a charity concert in Valencia on behalf of victims of the October DANA floods, which claimed more than 200 lives in the region. Dudamel has been […]
The irrepressible Antonio Moral, formerly of the Granada Festival, is now starting up mini-festivals in undeveloped parts of Spain. Starting with … Malaga. His opening event, at the ened of February, is backed by the […]
