27Jan

NY Philharmonic players form string quartet

Concertmaster Frank Huang, Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps, and Principal Cello Carter Brey will appear as the New York Philharmonic String Quartet. Their hitherto unannounced debut is scheduled tonight.  

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27Jan

The go-to recording for Bernstein’s symphonies

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Bernstein’s three symphonies have not enjoyed much exposure on record. Aside from the Sony and DG releases conducted by the composer, my database calls up only three other versions – Leonard Slatkin at the BBC, James Judd in New Zealand and an LA Phil DG download conducted by […]

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27Jan

Just in: Mahler’s biographer has died, aged 92

We share with sorrow news of the death this morning of Henry-Louis de LaGrange, a man who did more than any other to unearth the facts of Gustav Mahler’s life, which he published in four massive volumes. The son of an American heiress and a French aviator, Henry-Louis was transfixed by a Bruno Walter performance […]

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27Jan

How can orchestras replace lost sales?

Earlier this week we reported that British orchestras are playing more concerts  than ever and earning less at the box-office. In the US, Doug McLennan reports that orchestras’ earned income – ticket sales and seasonal subscriptions – has dropped from 60 percent of total revenue in 1990 to 40 percent in 2014 (and certainly lower […]

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27Jan

Conductor, 35, publishes his life with Mozart

A tiny bit premature?

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27Jan

Unknown Korean is Vienna’s new Tosca

Sae Kyung Rim steps up for Adrianne Pieczonca as Tosca on January 31 and February 3, making her Vienna debut. She faces Aleksandrs Antonenko as Cavaradossi and Thomas Hampson as Scarpia, Placido Domingo conducting. Some debut.

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27Jan

My quartet stays in a castle and is served by a gourmet chef

It’s not all second-class travel and Premier Inns for our weekly diarist, Anthea Kreston. I am in the middle of a 10 day tour, which includes two short stops in Berlin to catch up with family. I have increasingly begun to feel as if the actual performances are, in many ways, the most predictable and […]

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27Jan

Conductor loses his top

This is the US residence of Jahja Ling, music director of the San Diego Symphony, after a storm toppled a pine tree onto his roof. He was at home with his wife and two daughters in mid-afternoon and was heading upstairs when the tree came through the top of the house. External damage is extensive. […]

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27Jan

Agent of the year?

The Association of British Orchestras has named Kathryn Enticott its Artist Manager of the Year. Actually, she deserves better. Kathryn is a traliblazer. She led the flight out of big agencies into boutique management, leaving IMG and gathering up a handful of top artists – Bychkov, Welser-Möst, Znaider, Milos – whose careers she curates with […]

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26Jan

Richard Strauss festival names Fassbaender’s successor

The German conductor Alexander Liebreich will take over as intendant of the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 2018, it was announced today. He succeeds Brigitte Fassbaender who first put the festival on the map.    

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26Jan

Tafelmusik’s new music director is a La Scala violinist

The Canadian baroque orchestra has elected Elisa Citterio to succeed the retiring Jeanne Lamon. Citterio, an Italian violinist, is a member of the orchestra at La Scala, Milan.

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