The death has been announced of Cynthia Jolly, a member of Zoltan Kodaly’s study circle in Hungary and a part-time soprano singer. She was 94.

We reported some concern when the Menuhin Competition selectors picked three times as many girl contestants as boys in a field of 22. The result?

In a move that will have repercussions across the classical music business, Elizabeth Sobol resigned today as president of Universal Music Classics business in the

The Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, one of Italy’s most widely toured baroque ensembles over the past three decades has slipt in two after a

All the big beasts are lined up for the opening year of the Elbphilharmonie – Muti, Chailly, Rattle, Barenboim, Bychkov – but it’s Gustavo Dudamel

What violinist Arnaud Sussman does while waiting to board.   Practicing Bartok while waiting for my flight in a mostly empty airport 🙂 Posted by

We reported last month the decimation of the Zurich Festival. Today we report the demolition of the City of London Festival. The two wealthiest business

We have received official confirmation of the closure of the City of London Festival, effective immediately: A statement from the City of London Festival: “In

We understand that the City of London Festival has  shut down after 53 years. Two months before opening night, no programme has been announced and

Wolfgang Sobotka, who replaces the anti-immigrant hardliner Johanna Mikl-Leitner, studied cello at the Vienna Music University and conducting at the Bruckner University in Linz. While he is

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Most composer reputations subside in the generation after their death. It’s as if posterity calls time out while