LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez Debussy, Neuwirth, Arcaro, Agar, Boulez London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Barbican Hall, 26.01.2025 Debussy Trois Images pour Ochestre (interspersed) Neuwirth Tombeau II Hommage à Pierre Boulez (World premiere, LSO […]
Katherine Potter: Eight Nocturnes; Katherine Potter, Adam Pinto; ABC ClassicReviewed 27 January 2025 Personal reflection, late night jazz and minimalism along with Potter’s own warmly rhapsodic viola playing all contribute to these eight mellow new […]
Click here to watch It’s Wakes Week in Hindle; the mill is closed and the workers are idle. Fanny Hawthorn is relaxing at the seashore with a girlfriend when she runs into Alan Jeffcote, the […]
Andreas Ottensamer has just issued this message: I have decided to step down from my position as principal clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic, in order to fully dedicate to my activities as a conductor. The […]
Deborah Rutter, President of the Kennedy Center since 2014, has decided to quit at the end of this year. She has given no reason. Might have something to do with the Trump era. Rutter, 68, […]
Here’s the orchestra’s publicity for its next concerts. Your thoughts? The post Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Euskadiko Orkestra in the Basque region of Spain today abruptly terminated the contracts of chief conductor Robert Trevino and general director Oriol Roch. Trevino, who had been in the post for eight years, had […]
By Barry Lenson Clara Schumann, as you almost certainly know, was the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, who lived from 1810 until 1856. You probably also know that Clara was one of the finest […]
By Barry Lenson We recently profiled Clara Schumann, a supremely gifted composer who was married to Robert Schumann. Today, we would like to turn our attention to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, another astonishingly talented woman composer […]
Friends are reporting the death from a heart attack of Paul Charles Clarke, an international English tenor. Hailing from Liverpool, he won the Kathleen Ferrier prize and went on to sing abroad at Dallas Opera, […]
