The commercial station is making virtue of necessity by proclaiming it now has 4.4 million weekly listeners. This is historically its lowest-ever reach. It marks the continuation of a long-running decline resulting from a failure […]
The late Sir Andrew Davis was due to conduct Prom 53 on August 30. His sudden death last month has led to a revised concert, conducted by Martin Brabbins: the first half remains the same […]
Winchester Cathedral, having farewelled its director of music Andrew Lumsden two weeks ago, has quietly advertised for an interim successor. The ad appears only on the cathedral website and applications close next week. Interviews will […]
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra has appointed Mark Wigglesworth as Chief Conductor for the next three years. Two months ago Wigglesworth took on the same position at Bournemouth. The commuting could be tiresome. Wigglesworth said: ‘“I […]
We hear this morning that the influential German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has joined the petition to the Concertgebouw management in Amsterdam to reinstate two concerts it cancelled by the Jerusalem Quartet, supposedly for security reasons. […]
Musicians in Hamburg and Lisbon are in shock over the death of Pedro Freire, former principal trumpet of the Elbphilharmonie and the Gulbenkian orchestras. No cause has yet been made known. The Gulbenkian site has […]
National Gallery – Picture of the Month Click here to watch The National Gallery’s Picture of the Month for May is Piero della Francesca’s ‘The Baptism of Christ’ and, In celebration of the Gallery’s 200th […]
Aula of Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (Photo: Stefan Flöper / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Bach, Joachim, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven; Shunske Sato, Shuann Chai, Wolfgang Sandberger; Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen at Aula of Georg-August UniversitätReviewed 13 May 2024 […]
Bruckner Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä. Kulturpalast, Dresden, 10.05.2024 Symphony No 5 (1875/76; 1878 version, ed. Leopold Nowak, Third Revised Edition of 2005) Klaus Mäkelä’s career is in stratospheric mode. He takes over the […]
The season announcement by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra marks a significant change of tone. Instead of flagging up the names of visiting stars, the BSO promises ‘ a new artistic team (pic) and a raft […]
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