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The Guardian
How the Proms had their tone – and temperature – lowered
The man who bankrolled the first ever proms had three very sensible suggestions. Only one of them is no longer part of the concert season, writes Dan Zerdin
Alban Berg’s Lulu turns freedom fighter
Lulu is one of opera’s most astonishing characters, a femme fatale who manipulates and murders her way to a terrible end. Now she’s been turned into a black American freedom fighter, singing to a jazz score
Gramophone
Domingo’s Verdi baritone arias album available for free streaming on iTunes
Plácido Domingo, one of our era’s greatest tenors, is about to release his debut disc of baritone arias on Sony Classical – and iTunes is currently streaming the entire album for free
BBC News
Benjamin Britten ticket sales slow in Lowestoft hometown
Only a fifth of tickets have sold for a concert to mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth in Suffolk
Classical Music Magazine
New artistic director for Dartington
The new artistic director for Dartington International Summer School in 2014 is to be oboist and conductor Nicholas Daniel, the Dartington Hall Trust has announced
Die Zeit
Und das ist nur der erst Streich! Die Bratschistin Tabea Zimmermann führt uns zu fast vergessenen Kompositionen von Paul Hindemith
