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From our roving critic Susan Hall: Chloé van Soeterstède, French-born founder of London’s Arch Symphonia and principal guest conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, made her New York debut at Lincoln Center. A mentee of […]

Further to our report in cracks in the Voices Foundation, which helps improve singing in  schools, we now understand from the charity’s annual report that it is to be shut down. At the end of […]

The SWR has chosen Jonas Gira as principal horn and Raquel Perez-Juana as principal oboe. Jonas is a local lad. Raquel is a Spanish graduate of the Barenboim-Said academy. The orchestra’s chief conductor is the […]

Stage in the small hall of the Concertgebouw, with a capacity of just 450, the concert reveals great intensity on the paty of the audience and musicians alike. They played works by Debussy and Ben-Haim. […]

While state-funded opera companies are being strangled by Arts Cancel England, the private sector is thriving in country houses across the south of England. Today, the irrepressible Wasfi Kani announced a Ring cycle to be […]

We hear that CEO Manvinder Rattan left the music education charity last week and a statement is expected shortly on the VF’s future. The charity’s accounts show it overspent its £430,000 annual revenue by £53,000. […]

We have been notified of the death from cancer of Máire Taylor, founding editor of International Record Review and its guiding spirit for 15 years. Before that, she worked at Gramophone. The post Death of […]

We hear that the Baden-Baden audience erupted last night after a performance of VW’s second symphony by the SWR orchestra, conducted by the boyish Finn, Tarmo Peltokoski. The first half of Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo Suite […]

In a moving Times conversation with ex-Diwan violinist Clemency Burton-Hill, Barenboim stays positive about the orchestra he created: ‘We were very lucky that there were enough people on both sides that were interested. When you get […]