Musica Aeterna has announced the detah of its concertmaster, Inna Prokopyeva-Rice. She will be laid to rest on Friday in St Petersburg. The group, formed by Teodor Currentzis with Russian state funding, posted this message: […]
The Beethoven Orchestra Bonn has extended its general music director Dirk Kaftan to 2032, by which time he will have put in 15 years. That will see them covered for the Beethoven bicentenary in 2027. […]
The Malmö Symphony Orchestra has appointed the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck to be its Honorary Guest Conductor. The ‘honorary’ renders the title almost meaningless. He won’t have to do much. Honeck, 64, has been […]
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) […]
Mozart: Zaide – Lea Desandre, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Pygmalion – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borrelli) Mozart: Zaide oder der Weg des Lichts, Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Julian Prégardien, Daniel Behle, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Pygmalion, conductor: […]
It has become known that the distinguished tenor Lawrence Brownlee will top the bill at the season-opening concert of Moscow’s state-run Zaryadye Hall on September 8. Brownlee, 53, is not troubled by the western cultural […]
The loss of Esa-Pekka Salonen early in the festival was a serious blow. Now Zubin Mehta has pulled out. He has ‘personal reasons’ for not conducting Beethoven’s 9th symphony. Here’s the official notice: Regrettably, guest […]
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx (was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville and on television, radio, and the stage. He is considered one of America’s greatest comedians and he […]
The director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and the Bolshoi in Moscow has been out in the far east of Russia, inspecting progress on a museum and theatre complex he’s constructing in Vladivostok. […]
The violist Ori Kam has stepped down from the Jerusalem Quartet after 15 years. He says: ‘The past few years have been challenging for me and the quartet’. He speaks also of ‘new professional opportunities.’ […]
