classical music

During a Handel & Haydn Society concert at Boston’s Symphony Hall in May 2019, a 9-year-old boy shouted ‘wow!’ at the end of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music. H&H president David Snead, moved by the response, […]

This week’s revamped competition under Israeli president Yaron Kohlberg will feature a round of pop tunes in an attempt to broaden the public appeal of an increasingly esoteric enterprise. Kohlberg says: ‘People really love the […]

The Portuguese virtuoso Cristiana Neves Custódio has been named princpal horn of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. She’s currently touring with them in Holland and Spain. Cristiana, 27, previously enjoyed a spell with the Rotterdam Philharmonic.   […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Klaus Tennstedt fled East Germany in his mid-40s in 1971 and hung around for half a decade before anyone noticed he was a truly remarkable conductor – ‘last […]

From my latest essay in The Critic: The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one […]

Opera singers are sharing sad news of the death, on Thursday, of the legendary Benjamin Luxon. He was 85. A Cornishman from Redruth, Luxon created the role of Owen Wyngrave in an opera that Benjamin […]

Hello Dolly! – London Palladium This is the show they don’t make ‘em like anymore. Imelda Staunton, completing her trio of big female roles – Mama Rose, Mrs. Lovat and now Dolly Levi – is the centrifugal force around which […]

Caroline Oltmanns writes: It is with great sadness that we have to say our final goodbye to Sean Ryan Baran who was tragically killed in a pedestrian accident yesterday near his home. Sean was one […]