The Merry Wives of Windsor – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play which is set in his own time with characters who would have […]
The British actor narrates a cosmic new work by Sibelius descendant Lauri Porra. The composer’s wife conducts. You may well have heard it here first. The post Life, the universe and … Stephen Fry appeared […]
Press release: Over the past four years (2020-2024), German conductor and organist Hansjörg Albrecht has recorded Bruckner’s complete symphonic oeuvre as a transcription for organ for the first time worldwide. This colossal project, entitled Anton […]
Extraordinary footage from 1970 of the German pianist at his most organic. The post Watch: Wilhelm Kempff, 75, reimagines Mozart appeared first on Slippedisc.
Leave work before 1700: The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a musicologist specialising in the period before c.1700 to the post of Assistant Professor, starting on 1 January 2025 […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — […]
We understand that the Houston Symphony has suspended its principal horn, Bill VerMeulen, for the rest of the season. Houston is about to host the League of American Orchestras conference and it does not want […]
The culinary phenomenon Kenji López-Alt is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who plays music where and whenever he can. Speaking Soundly to Met principal trumpet David Krauss, he learned to play violin at […]
The first Fanny Mendelssohn composing prize, worth 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to Sunghyun Lee, 28, from Seoul. He is presently studying in Frankfurt. The post Korean composer wins first Fanny prize appeared first on […]
We have received confirmation of the death on Monday of Werner Hink, a cherished member of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1965. Hink, who was 81, was hugely influential at the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, where […]
