The Leipzig Gewandhaus will recommence concerts next month beginning with chamber music for a socially distanced audience.
Sad news, the Ankara-born Ruşen Güneş, formerly principal viola of the London Philharmonic and BBC Symphony orchestras, has died at the age of 80.
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Elgar on the Beach: Piano Quintets by Amy Beach & Edward Elgar – Takács Quartet & Garrick Ohlsson [Hyperion]
This impressive release, flawlessly produced by Andrew Keener and superbly recorded by Simon Eadon, coupling the sole Piano Quintets of Amy Beach and Edward Elgar, was set down in May last year soon after Harumi Rhodes had been installed as second violin of the Takács...
When Tom met Harry & Max.
In 2014, the respective composers’ eightieth-birthday year, Tom Service met Sirs Harrison Birtwistle (pictured right) & Peter Maxwell Davies for a fascinating and revealing conversation, just now rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3 (11.45 a.m. on Saturday May 30, and...
Conductors on the move.
Emmanuel Krivine (pictured) has resigned as music director of Orchestre national de France with immediate effect. "After sharing so many beautiful moments of music and humanity with the Orchestre national de France and our loyal audience during our concerts (around...
New titles announced for Glyndebourne Open House.
Glyndebourne has announced the next two opera titles in its virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House - Barber’s Vanessa (pictured) and Handel’s Rinaldo. Glyndebourne Open House enjoyed a successful launch last Sunday 24 May with a broadcast of Michael Grandage’s 2012...
Jane Moss to Step Down as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Moss’s 27-Year Tenure Marked by More Than 100 Commissions and 300 Premieres NEW YORK, NY (May 29, 2020) – After nearly three decades providing artistic leadership at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Jane Moss will step down from her post as Artistic Director...
New York Philharmonic News
Get Your Phil: New Music FestJune 9–18, 2020 Broadcasts: Project 19 Premieres, Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth, and MoreLiving Music: Get Your Phil Edition, Hosted by Nadia SirotaNew Music Now and Then: Digital Conversation...
Berliner Festspiele | MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2020 | Coronavirus / Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos can Return to Bolivia.
After two-and-a-half months of quarantine spent at the Music Academy Rheinsberg in Brandenburg, the 25 musicians of the Bolivian Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) can finally set out on their flight home to Bolivia, thanks to the efforts of the...