15th April: James Levine retires, David Bowie’s Blackstar the best-selling vinyl & John Wilson on the Proms
Friday 15th April '16
Classical News In today's news James Levine, music director at New York's Metropolitan Opera retires for health reasons, David Bowie's Blackstar is the best-selling vinyl of the past year, Alan Loveday has died at age of 88 …
Read8th April: Lang Lang celebrates NYC’s musical history, Ailyn Pérez wins award and NYOGB becomes associate orchestra at Southbank Centre
Friday 8th April '16
Classical News In our news today, Lang Lang plans to gather prominent musicians to celebrate New York's musical history, Ailyn Pérez wins this year’s Beverly Sills Artist Award, The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are to become associate …
Read25th February: ECHO Klassik submissions started, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015 finalists announced, composer Charles Kálmán dies at 85
Wednesday 25th February '15
Classical News The Guardian Composers on their premieres: 'This is the point where one has to let go' The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has helped music lovers fund commissions through its Sound Investment scheme for almost 30 years. …
Read19th January: Giants of Architecture: Philharmonie de Paris and Elbphilharmonie, Sir Simon Rattle and Jonas Kaufmann, Panama as Jazz Capital
Monday 19th January '15
Classical News Guardian Vintage photograph marks conductor Sir Simon Rattle’s sixth decade National Portrait Gallery acquires photograph by Rory Coonan on plate camera and BBC shows month of special programming The Times Jonas Kaufmann: is this the tenor your mother …
Read8th December: Matching up to Beethoven, Singapore Chinese composition contest, debate about the Suzuki method
Monday 8th December '14
Classical News Guardian Arts in England told to make progress with diversity or have funding axed Warning comes from Arts Council England chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette in ‘most important’ speech Fiona Maddocks: classical music’s most significant firsts of 2014 The …
Read4th December: Minnesota Orchestra loss of $650,000, making music together promotes integration, Karajan: a new film
Thursday 4th December '14
Classical News The Guardian Was Kyung Wha Chung right to upbraid a coughing child disturbing her recital? A violinist has suggested to a child’s parents they ‘bring her back when she’s older’. Fair enough? Karajan: a new film – …
Read27th October: 161-year-old Philharmonic faces closure in Australia, International Opera Studio in Hamburg celebrates 20 years anniversary, Pietari Inkinen new Chief Conductor at Prague Symphony Orchestra
Monday 27th October '14
Classical News Telegraph Anna Magdalena Bach: a forgotten genius?If JS Bach's wife composed some of his best-known pieces, it will put a bomb at the heart of the Western musical tradition Violin teacher Suzuki is the biggest fraud …
Read20th August: final talks at MET Opera, review of Young Euro Classic 2014, influence of classical music on shopping
Wednesday 20th August '14
Classical News The New York Times Metropolitan Opera Clears Last Hurdle in Labor Talks The Metropolitan Opera and the union representing its stage hands reached a contract deal early Wednesday morning.The Guardian Peter Maxwell Davies at 80: ‘The music …
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