The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years.
The French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux has gone on social media with a remarkably candid assessement of the perils of facing a fickle Vienna audience. There is good advice here for anyone having to appear before […]
This may be the most heartwarming press release of our week: Seven violin makers will spend a weekend at Manchester Museum repairing violas and cellos for the new Olympias Recycled Orchestra programme. This new […]
I feel sorry for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. They got themselves a new hot-stuff conductor in 2020, and now a recording arrangement with Pentatone (although that’s not as prestigious as it once was), and this […]