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Not many people noticed but at 6pm last night Radio Lichtenstein went dead. The secretive tax haven, which has many more bank accounts than its 39,000 citizens, put the future of the radio station to […]

The German baritone (pictured) will direct Salome next season in Toulouse, with Michael Fabiano and Adriana Gonzalez in the leading roles. Goerne is one of the most thoughtful artists on the present-day recital circuit. Also […]

The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]

In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]

The US conductor Karina Canellakis has recommitted to Dutch Radio: I am very happy to announce that I will stay Chief Conductor of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest through to 2031. I am proud of how […]

The German label Dabringhaus und Grimm has ordered an enoromous skip in which it will crunch up 20,000 unsold classical CDs, rather than paying a five-figure royalty demand from the collection agency Gema. Full story […]

Pembridge College has wasted no time in filling the organ bench lately vacated by Anna Lapwood. The new director of music is to be Luke Fitzgerald, assistant director at Coventry Cathedral. He says: ‘Big shoes […]

We are hearing from disappointed concertgoers who booked flights to attend Víkingur Ólafsson’s Wigmore Hall recital of Beethoven and Schubert sonatas, only to be informed today that the Icelandic pianist has reverted to last year’s […]

We have been notified of the passing of the Grammy award-winning conductor John Nelson, an American who became an authority in the music of Hector Berlioz and other romantic creators. John was 83. The son […]

The pianist and composer Nikki Iles is to be Principal Conductor of the NDR Bigband from September. She succeeds Geir Lysne. Nikki, 61, was previously composer in residence with NDR Bigband. The post British jazz […]