UK soloist suffers broken wrist
Message from the BBC Symphony Orchestra: We regret to announce that Jennifer Pike is no longer able to perform at Perth Concert Hall on 21 February 2025, as she recovers from a micro-fracture on one […]
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Maestros behaving badly
Many Russians will think highly of Valery Gergiev’s action in skipping out in mid-opera to conduct a Putin aria halfway across Moscow. Russian audiences are used to being kept waiting, and worse things happened under […]
Life after Gardiner: Monteverdis warm up Hamburg
Days after Sir John Eliot Gardiner flew in with his new team, the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir performed an identical programme at the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Christophe Rousset (pictured). The performance was totally […]
Consolation for Klaus Mäkelä after weak Vienna Phil debut
The over-booked Finn had a hard time at his Vienna Philharmonic debut this weekend with Mahler’s sixth Symphony. The experienced critic for Der Standard, Stefan Ender, found the performance ‘incredibly loud’, resulting in ‘a levelling […]
UK arts chief dies, days after resignation
Birmingham Royal Ballet has just announced the death of its dedicated chief executive Caroline Miller. It is with great sadness that Birmingham Royal Ballet today announces that CEO Caroline Miller passed away in the early […]
Visionaries: a multi-sensory experience
Back in June 2024 Vache Baroque staged six multi-sensory concert experiences of Handel’s L’Allegro Part I (setting a text based on Milton) in collaboration with BitterSuite (a group that creates music experiences that take inspiration […]
Sinfonia Smith Square Hall awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant
Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square (formed from the merger of Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith Square) has been awarded £452,035 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund for upgrades to Smith Square Hall. The […]
India mourns ‘greatest player’
The legendary tabla player, composer, actor and producer Zakir Hussain died today in a US hospital at the age of 73. A government minister declared him ‘irreplaceable’. Zakir Hussain shot to fame in the 1970s, […]
Riccardo Muti: They appointed Klaus who?
The emeritus music director of the Chicago Symphony seems charmingly vague about his successor in an interview with Dennis Polkow. Or maybe he’s just kidding, with a touch of malice. Excerpt: “I didn’t want to […]
Reviews: Kirill Petrenko takes Mahler’s 9th fast and soft
An ecstatic reception of Petrenko’s Mahler Ninth with the Israel Philharmonic has been accompanied by thoughtful reviews. Petrenkko himself wrote in a programme note that he did not accept the collective conducting wisdom that the […]
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