It’s all change at the summits. Christoph Müller was named today as Intendant of the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, near Locarno. He joins new Intendant Daniel Hope at Gstaad and new boss Sebastian Nordmann at […]
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 […]
