BACKEvery day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.
The Guardian
Art can’t do justice to the Holocaust’s full horror, but it can ask questions, provoke and remind us. English National Opera’s The Passenger, partly set in Auschwitz, has had mixed reviews.
The Guardian
Shattering boundaries? Can’t we just go to hear the music?
Next spring’s Reverb festival has some great looking gigs. So why the need for fighting talk? Conductor Sir Mark Elder and Imogen Heap on the same bill?
The New York Times
Met Orchestra And New Chief, Out of the Pit
Fabio Luisi has been under the opera world’s microscope since last season, when it became clear that the Metropolitan Opera, which had made him its principal guest conductor in 2010, was grooming him to succeed James Levine as its music director
Gramophone
Lang Lang coming to a cinema near you
Pianist broadcasts live performance in Europe and Asia.
