Gustavo Dudamel: I’m not leaving LA
The apparently departing music director has gone to great lengths to reassure the West Coast that, whatever happens in New York, home stays home. From an interview with Mark Swed of the LA Times: “I […]
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Ruth Leon recommends… Casper David Friedrich’s 250th birthday
Who? Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically […]
Chromatica: A new orchestra is born
Introducing Chromatica Orchestra I am told of a new orchestra, and the press release is below. I hope to report on the Batttersea concert (the Barber Violin Concerto is heard far too little os this […]
Exquisite vocal lines & imaginative storytelling: Harry Christophers & The Sixteen focus on Stanford’s secular choral music in Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs
Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; COROReviewed 22 July 2024 by Tony Coooper Punctuating Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s centenary, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have just issued 17 première recordings of his […]
Vampires, the Angel of Death and Prophets – our August e-newsletter is now out
Bizet: Carmen – dancers, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anja Bihlmaier – Glyndebourne Festival at BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise In case you missed it Our monthly e-newsletter is out – August on Planet Hugill: Vampires, the […]
A Ring cycle to rival the Met’s
No sooner has the Metropolitan Opera rolled out plans for a new Wagner Ring than the Dallas Symphony announces concert performances of all four operas (Oct 13, 15, 17, 20), as well as standalone Siegfried […]
Best-selling US organist dies, 81
The ever-popular Michael Murray died last week at the age of 81. A student of Marcel Dupré, whose biography he would write, Murray was organist of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 31 […]
Where’s Anna Netrebko?
The Russian-Austrian diva has been seen this week in Amsterdam in the company of her new beau, the Hungarian-Romanian bass Alexander Köpeczi. The pair have been friends since April when they sang together in La […]
Ryanair refuses to board a violin
With Ryanair, it’s almost as if they go to work each day wondering how to inflict more distress on their passengers. This just in from the violinist Esther Abrami: Today I was refused boarding on […]
An American tenor in Paris dies, aged 77
We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris. He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn […]
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