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It’s not just the rest of the world that bottom-bumping Ryanair enjoys tormenting. Sharon Corr, a member of the Irish folk pop band The Corrs, has sent this message to Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair boss […]

The Chiaroscuro Quartet, which plays on on gut strings and with period bows, has had a change of violinist. The Spaniard Pablo Hernán Benedí is leaving after 14 years. He is replaced by French violinist […]

The music collection of Liverpool flautist and humourist Fritz Spiegl (1926-2003) is up for sale at Sotheby’s next week, July 11. It includes a letter in English from Mendelssohn, and plenty from more recent English […]

The divorcing couple found themselves face to face at La Scala. Scherzo has a nuanced review by veteran musicologist Paolo Petazzi. Anna Netrebko’s search for nuances (Turandot) is admirable, as the most interesting vocal interpreter. […]

The violinist, who is director of the Edinburgh International Festival, has appealed to the SNP Scottish government to fulfil its pledges to fund the arts, rather than reduce them by £6.6m. Bendetti said: ‘It is […]

Four members of Zurich’s internationally renowned Tonhalle Orchestra have got so excited at the prospect of Taylor Swift performances on July 9 and 10 that they have issued an instrumental arrangement of her hit, Anti-Hero. […]

An audience member who held up a rude sign in Finnish during an Esa-Pekka Salonen concert ten days ago has been threatened with disciplinary acction by the orchestra management. Laura Leibowitz brandished the sign below. […]

The son, a violinist, is more outspoken than his father in an interview with BR: MB: As classical musicians, we can’t really change the reasons for Israel’s attacks and for the starvation of the population. […]

Some leading personalities have added their signatures to a petition to stop the far-right. Among them are the singers Natalie Dessay, Julie Fuchs and Sabine Devieilhe, pianists Alexandre Kantorow (pic) and Alexandre Tharaud, conductors Debora […]

The current issue of Hello! magazine features 12 pages – count them – on a fundraiser Simon Cowell put of for London Music Fund, which puts instruments and tuition in the hands of some of […]