And so another young conductor’s star has well and truly risen. It was only a few years ago that the Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin was widely known only in his native country - he ran Opera...
An important violin by the Italian maker Domenico Montagnana will go up for auction in London today. The violin, an early but accomplished example of work by the Venetian luthier whose output spanned the years 1720-50,...
After several years fighting Alzheimer’s, Arne Nordheim – the leading contemporary Norwegian composer and one of the great creative figures in post-war 20th-century music – has died, 15 days short of his 79th birthday. Nordheim first...
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra has unveiled details of its next season – the last with Gianandrea Noseda at the helm. The Italian conductor announced last week that he was stepping down as chief conductor of the...
“Oh my beloved Taddei!” ventured Philip Hope-Wallace on air one afternoon in the early post-war years, remarking on the great and sudden popularity of the new Italian baritone. And certainly Gianni Schicchi was one of his...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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