Wagner: Die Walküre – The London Opera Company, November 2023 London Opera Company presented a full-scale performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre at Smith Square Hall (St John’s Smith Square) in November 2023 conducted by Peter Selwyn. […]
Founded in 1995 by Rainer Kussmaul, Raimar Orlovsky and other members of the Berlin Philharmonic as an ensemble specialised in music of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Berliner Barock Solisten is a crack ensemble […]
David Krauss’s latest inrerviewee on Speaking Soundly is the jazz pianist Aaron Diehl, an artist whose roots in Catholic and classical music have fed an phenomenal gift for improvisation. When not playing, he’s flying aircraft. […]
Wittenberg Artists agency – four conductors, four soloists – today becomes a subsidiary of the large London agency Intermusica. It will be known as Intermusica New York. Martin Wittenberg will run IM’s NY office with […]
This is properly musicians in sevice of music. The pieces here ae rarely heard, and of the three composers only one has anything like the recognition he deserves, and even then it’s somewhat lacking (Bliss). […]
A Journey into Lohengrin – San Francisco Opera This splendid film, recommended by my friend Harvey in San Francisco (thank you, Harvey) takes viewers behind the scenes as a musical Everest is readied for the […]
Christopher Nolan’s enormously successful 2023 film, Oppenheimer (seven Oscars, seven Golden Globes, five BAFTAs) about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War […]
A chilling late reflection from the most compelling pianist of the 20th century. Apparently taken from Bruno Monsaingeon’s film. All the more chilling for being seen in isolation. The post Sviatoslav Richter: I do not […]
Preservation Hall jazz club in New Orleans has named Japanese pianist Mari Watanabe as a winner of this year’s Legacy Awards. Watanabe, 59, is the first Japanese musician to be recognised in the homeland of […]
In an act of Kremlin musical chairs, the Russian leader has reshuffled his Presidential Council for Culture and Art. Out goes the former Bolshoi chief, Vladimir Urin, who was never much of a Putinist. In […]
