classical music

A pair of hit-spinners* on Classic FM are the standout names in the King’s bleak New Year’s List. Others honoured include the organist Michael Harris, Master of the Music at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, […]

The death has been reported of Ted Chance, principal horn of  the Orchestra Of St John’s Smith Square and the English Sinfonia, and a regular member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A busy freelancer, Ted […]

The US jazz bassist Barre Phillips, resident in France for more than half a century, died in Mexico at the weekend at the age of 90. Founder of the European Improvisation Centre, he was a […]

Colorado will never sound the same without Margaret Hoeppner in the cellos. She was just 19 when she joined what was then the Denver Symphony in 1961. Her future husband Fred was principal cello. He […]

The atmosphere in the Serb capital Belgrade just turned uglier. Early this month, a car drove into a group of Belgrade Philharmonic musicians who were protesting at Government indifference towards victims of a railway disaster. […]

Message from the Vienna-based Russian soprano: “I am regrettably obliged to withdraw from my January performances in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Wiener Staatsoper, which would have marked my role debut. Ill health this month […]

The Chicago singer Ian Fisher, an alumnus of Saint Thomas Choir School, has published an excoriating article on the abandonment of the music heritage in the Episcopal church. Here’s the beginning: It is hardly a […]

A bad year for Winchester Cathedral just got a whole lot sadder. William Kendall, legendary tenor lay clerk at Winchester and one of the finest church tenors in the world, passed away on Boxing Day. […]

We’re hearing that the Vienna State Opera has replaced Anna Netrebko in all January performances of Ariadne auf Naxos. No reason has yet been given. More details when available. The post Breaking: Vienna replaces Netrebko […]