End of: CBSO bans happy snappers
The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos. The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]
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‘American music offers nothing better than Ives at his best’?
The headline is taken from a New Yorker opinion by Alex Ross on the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. We beg to disagree. Ives has fallen out of favour in the 21st century, and justly so. […]
If Badura-Skoda’s Haydn was a fake, what price the new Chopin?
From a Guardian article, based on a BBC Radio 3 essay: In 1993, completely out of the blue, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda (pic) was sent a photocopy of a manuscript purporting to be […]
Silly sums: $2 billion to renew an opera house?
From SWR: The planned renovation of the Stuttgart Opera House could cost between 1.5 and 2 billion euros – this is what research by the SWR has shown. Up until now, the public has always […]
Joyce DiDonato survives the US election
Message from the Kansas diva: Last night: I kept vigil through the whole night and early morning. Then my eyes closed – numb – of their own volition. I woke a few minutes/lifetimes later bathed […]
Busoni Piano Music #12: the end nears
It is the centenary of Busoni’s death (1866-1924), and recordings, if not quite as omnipresent as some would like, are certainly increasing. On Classical Explorer, we’ve previously looked at Busoni’s Violin Concerto on Chandos with […]
Calidore String Quartet’s wonderful Beethoven
I passed on the Calidore String Quartet’s previous Beethoven set of the late quartets, issued in early 2023. Based solely on the sound samples I listened to online, I thought they sometimes sounded a bit […]
Spring is coming to Snape, with Britten Pears Arts announcing its Spring season
Aldeburgh Young Musicians Spring is coming to Snape, with Britten Pears Arts announcing its Spring season, with visitors including Aurora Orchestra and English Touring Opera, Easter celebrations and lunchtime concerts from Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Studiolo – Met Museum
Studiolo – Met Museum Writer Amor Towles finds inspiration in a visit to one of his favourite places in The Met, the magical Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio. This is a little cubbyhole in […]
Staged in the majestic surroundings of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Mendelssohn’s Elijah provoked the inner senses
Birmingham Triennial Music Festival at the Town Hall Mendelssohn: Elijah; Carolyn Sampson, Sarah Connolly, Andrew Staples, Simon Keenlyside, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Daniel Hyde; King’s College Chapel, Cambridge at part of the Cambridge Music […]
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