The French soloist Hélène Grimaud has been replaced on both of the past two nights with the Basel Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival and the Swiss Tannay Festival. She will also miss the rest […]
The Amsterdam theatre group ITA has dismissed the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, following reports of ‘unacceptable behaviour’ under his leadership. Van Hove, 65, resigned last year as artistic director but retained a €145,000 salary […]
The Very Reverend Jane Hedges, Dean of Norwich Cathedral from 2014 to 2022, has been called in to assist in the Bishop’s Review of Winchester Cathedral, where the unhappy comings and goings have been recorded […]
The Royal Opera in Stockholm has a new artistic director, replacing Michael Cavanagh, who died suddenly in March. His successor is Tobias Theorell, presently in the same job at Stockholm’s secondary Folkoperan. The post […]
The violinist posts: This is the view from my hotel room here in Copenhagen and a lot of noise … Recital is at 5 PM! Tour number 2 – next week is the start of […]
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras have engaged the Frenchman Christophe Rousset in place of Sir John Eliot Gardiner on their next tour. Gardiner, 81, was fired after a violent incident. Rousset, 63, is a much-recorded […]
Daniele Rustioni and Dalia Stasevska meet up on a London park bench for the family-friendly Proms. Amazing how the maestro world has changed in our time. I had a little reflection on it with Simon […]
This is a stunningly beautiful Creation (it is sung in German, so properly, Schöpfung). The city of Dresden is a jewel in Germany’s crown, so full of rich music and projects (witness the ongoing authentic-instrument […]
This year, the Cumnock Tryst is presenting five days of events to celebrate its 10th birthday. Founded by composer Sir James MacMillan, the festival runs from 2 to 6 October 2024. MacMillan, who grew up […]
The standard work on the Russian composer for the past four decades has been the four-volume study by David Brown, an English musicologist at the University of Southampton. Brown was a proponent of the narrative […]
