Beethoven NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 3pm, 19.01.2025 (CC) String Quartets: No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18/4 (1799/1800); No. 9 in C, Op. 59/3, Razumovsky’ (1806) The NOVO Quartet of Denmark won the 77th […]
Cynthia Erivo Click here to watch Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Amarachukwu Owezuke Echimino Erivo celebrates her 38th birthday this week. I’m being pernickety about her proper name as I was rightly taken to task recently for […]
Concertos for the Left Hand: Ravel, Korngold; Mathias Halvorsen, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Otto Tausk; Backlash MusicReviewed 22 January 2025 Two Paul Wittgenstein associated works, one known, one lesser-known, both receive towering performances that bring out […]
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
The agency has ‘reintroduced’ its classical touring division in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and South America. Peter Ansell of Intermusica joins as executive VP and head of department. See also: The case for […]
Orchestra consultant Thomas Wolf throws down a gauntlet: Let’s say you are an aging professional athlete who has enjoyed a successful career in your sport but you are no longer competing at a peak professional […]
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In her first interview as intendant of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Elisabeth Sobotka says she is cancelling one production in the 2025-26 season – which one has yet to be decided. The company is […]
Now the Federal Government has laid off all of its diversity staff, there will be orchestras up and down the USA who will want to be sacking their vice-presidents in charge of Diversity, Equity and […]
Manchester Camerata & Kantos explore space with the James Webb Space Telescope The Manchester Camerata will be giving a pair of concerts in its home, the Monastery in Gorton, Manchester [see my 2023 article about […]
