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Eric Whitacre signs to Decca
American composer Eric Whitacre has signed to Decca on what is described as an “exclusive, long-term recording contract”. His debut album for the label, “Light & Gold”, will be recorded in August, and will feature Whitacre...
3rd Jun 2010
July issue of Gramophone on sale!
The cream of the world's musicians are heading to London over the next few months for the BBC Proms, the world's largest music festival. You can as ever listen on the radio or online from many...
2nd Jun 2010
Fund launched in memory of Philip Langridge
On Sunday May 30, a gala concert was held in the John McIntosh Arts Centre at the London Oratory School, in honour of the celebrated English tenor Philip Langridge, who died on March 5 this year,...
2nd Jun 2010
Music in the Round appoints new artistic director
Music in the Round, the Sheffield-based chamber music organisation, has appointed a new artistic director. Founded in 1984 as the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival by Peter Cropper, first violin of the now-retired string quartet The Lindsays,...
26th May 2010
King’s Singers appoint new bass
The King’s Singers, a six-man ensemble as renowned for their interpretations of early and contemporary vocal music as for their witty arrangements of popular music, have appointed a new bass. Jonathan Howard, 23, a graduate of...
25th May 2010
Yvonne Loriod, pianist and Messiaen's wife, has died
The opportunity to observe Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic rehearsing Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony in January 1988 with the composer present was too good to pass up. Yet time and again the 63-year-old piano...
19th May 2010
LPO extends principal conductor Jurowski's contract
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has extended the contracts of both its principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski and its principal guest conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The positive feeling among London concert-goers about the Jurowski/LPO relationship, which began with the...
18th May 2010
Italian opera houses strike following government cuts
The mayor of the city of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, is the latest to add his voice to a chorus of disapproval among musicians and theatre workers following government reform of state-supported opera houses and orchestras approved...
18th May 2010
Savitri staged in the Berghain techno club
Every weekend, Berlin’s most fabulous young things head to Berghain, where Berlin's most celebrated DJs spin way past dawn. For two nights last week, however, the world renown techno club housed in a former power plant,...
18th May 2010
The BBC launches a major opera season
"Opera on the BBC", a cross-network focus on music’s most glamorous art-form has been launched today with a performance on Radio 3 of Bellini’s La sonnambula with Natalie Dessay in the title-role. Television channels BBC Two...
13th May 2010
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