Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.
Classical Music Magazine Online
Academy of St Martin in the Fields begins first season under Joshua Bell
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields starts its 2011/12 season at Kings Place on 14 October in an all-Mozart programme conducted by former principal flautist Jaime Martin.
The Telegraph
Music and table tennis ping into action at 2012 Olympics
Cultural Olympiad will feature ‘New Music 20×12’ – 20 new compositions each lasting 12 minutes and each with a sporting theme.
The Telegraph
The genius and the silence of Janet Baker
Dame Janet Baker, who has just won a Lifetime Achievement award, stunned music lovers when she quit in her prime.
The Independent
Yannick Nezet-Seguin: Watch my face, hear the music
Rapt audiences say that the young French-Canadian’s ultra-physical conducting style actually helps them listen. He talks to Edward Seckerson about life lessons, honesty – and his four-orchestra family
The Guardian
Britten and Rostropovich: history in the making
The chance discovery of a long-lost film in a Russian archive led John Bridcut to unspool a remarkable connection between two musical greats – Benjamin Britten and Mstislav Rostropovich