Winners and splitters at Germany’s premier awards
The Opus Klassik awards are so diffuse it is hard to tell who comes out top and who’s got the going-home present. There are four awards, for instance, for Young Talent of the Year. What, […]
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Austria defunds leading festival by crippling 30 percent
A massive cut has been made in state and local subsidies for the lake-top Bregenz Festival at the western edge of the Austrian republic. In a cooordinated triple-whammy, the centreal govenment, region and the town […]
Love and Loss in Thaxted: Alexander Chance and Toby Carr
Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor); Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.06.2025 (9pm) A stroll through Elizabethan lute […]
The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s visit to this year’s Aldeburgh Festival offered a couple of favourable concerts that stamped the quality and commitment of its fine bunch of players.
Britten: Our Hunting Fathers – Allan Clayton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Awake, Helen Grime: Violin Concerto, Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Vier letzel Lieder; Anu Komsi, Leila […]
This is all that is left of Welsh National Opera
An insider tells us that the WNO orchestra will open next season without: A Leader Principal second violin ( long-term maternity leave) ANY double-basses Principal flute Second clarinet Second trumpet Second trombone Timpanist There are […]
Breaking: Anna Netrebko quits Verona
Message from the Russian soprano’s people: Anna Netrebko is unfortunately obliged to withdraw from her two performances of Aida at the Arena di Verona this summer for personal reasons. “I sincerely regret the inconvenience this […]
Catalan composer, RIP
The death has been announced of Albert Llanas Rich, a leading Catalan composer whose work was performed by international orchestras. Albert was 67. Sequences for Orchestra , which won the City of Barcelona Prize, is […]
Armenian star gets a Strad
The excellent Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan has been loaned the famed ‘Kiesewetter’ violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona around the year 1724. The loan was made through the Stretton Society, which places prestige instruments […]
Lang Lang to mentor Saudi pianists
Another act of educational philanthropy. Press release from Riyadh today: RIYADH: The Music Commission has launched the Kingdom’s first summer piano program, in collaboration with renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang, the Saudi Press Agency reported. […]
New allies? Salonen takes NY Philharmonic to Korea
At the LA Phil, Gustavo Dudamel got on exceedingly well with his precedessor as music director Esa-Pekka Salonon. Looks like the pact is transferring to New York. Dude will be MD. E-P is taking the […]
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