I have enjoyed many CDs over the years from the Belgian chamber ensemble, Oxalys. On the Fuga Libera label, the Mozart and Ries Flute Quartets are simply glorious. And more recently on Passacaille, entire albums of […]
Opening in a blaze of raw Handelian energy, this is a disc for the ages. Three psalms: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, all magnificently shaped by Justin Doyle with a simply superb line-up of […]
The diva is 52 years old and on her own. She can choose between embracing Putin onc e more or denouncing him sufficiently to appease western employers who are anyway eager to harness her undiminished […]
Local media report that the school, which offers tuition to deprive communities, is facing closure over a deficit of $80,000. That’s all it takes. Read here. The post Brooklyn Music School may shut appeared first […]
A couple of weeks ago, Yusif Eyvazov changed managements. Nothing earth-shattering about that except that it was a move he made alone, independently of his powerful wife, the soprano Anna Netrebko. Today, the couple announced […]
The soprano Anna Netrebko and her tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov have told the Austrian Press Agency that their marriage is over. ‘After ten happy years together, we have made the difficult but friendly decision to […]
In the latest reshuffle on the classical channel, Sean Rafferty is to leave after presenting the drivetime show In Tune since 1997. He says: ‘“I shall miss the truly remarkable and life-enhancing musicians, many coming […]
The death has been communicated of the Iowa-born Austrian pianist Norman Shetler, a professor in Vienna who made his own puppets and toured his creations as a musical cabaret. Early in his career he competed […]
Message from Seraph Brass, an all-female ensemble: We are thrilled to welcome our newest core member, horn player Layan Atieh! Layan Atieh is a Palestinian-American horn player currently residing in Cleveland, OH. Layan regularly performs […]
The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]
