classical music

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just completed a well-received tour of Japan. Not a word has appeared on the orchestra’s website, where the news section has not been updated since May 1. The […]

The influential French composer’s 150th anniversary, utterly ignored in Paris, is top and second of this week’s Apple streaming charts (shared exclusively by slippedisc.com): 1 Satie: Discoveries Alexandre Tharaud 2 Chapeau Satie Xuefei Yang 3 […]

A reader has asked us to identify Alexander Maloffeev’s post-Gershwin encore (38:00 on the video) from this description:   Over an elaborately arpeggiated left hand, the right hand plays a chordal descending major scale of […]

We’re excited to report that the relentlessly serious opera-buff bible Avant-Scène Opéra will resume publication in November after being shut down by its previous owner in February. Jules Cavalié, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, says: ‘I […]

One of the defining personalities of the Seattle Symphony, piccolist Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby has announced her retirement at the end of this month. She has played in the orchestra for 43 years and mentored several of […]

A former scholarship student at Kent State University, the Czech clarinetist Jaroslav Skuta has abandoned a concert tour with his trio after being detained at immigration in Detroit. ‘I was subjected to aggressive, demeaning interrogation […]

The Italian singing Manrico in The Royal Opera’s Trovatore used to muscle in as an extra in movies with Hollywood stars. Riccardo Massi tells the Express he had funded his music studies as a stuntman […]

The theatre has tightened up on dress code. A new line on its website states: The Management invites the public to choose clothing appropriate to the decorum of the Theater, respecting the Theater itself and […]