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. […]
Pierre R. Schwob, the founder and CEO of Classical Archives, has written books on calculators, history and even chess. He has now published a unique and remarkable novel, entitled AWE. All of us at Classical […]
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 […]
The venue needs to replace Sebastian Nordmann, who is of to run the Lucerne Festival. It has chosen Tobias Rempe, founder-manager of Ensemble Resonanz. Rempe, 53, has the approval of chief conductor Joana Mallwitz and […]
A cri de coeur to our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I am in my mid-50’s, play in a medium sized orchestra, and teach part-time at a university. I have been in this situation for many […]
