The Wise Music Group has acquired a controlling interest in the Edition Peters Group from the Hinrichsen Foundation and will own Peters in partnership with Christian Hinrichsen, whose family has been associated with the company since 1863. … » Read

The Mariinsky Orchestra performed in Beijing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on March 27, becoming the first foreign orchestra to visit China since it closed its borders to visitors in early 2020 due to stringent Covid … » Read

As previously reported , on March 28 Apple Classical Music (ACM) finally went live—unfortunately only on I-Phones, for now. Apple subscribers are promised access to more than 20,000 composers, 115,000 works, and five million tracks. … » Read

The Paris Opera has launched Paris Opera Play (POP), its new streaming service available in international markets. The site offers live performances; exclusive documentaries, artist biographies, and masterclasses; and a catalogue of nearly 80 … » Read

On Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located above the Arctic Circle, plans are underway to create the Global Music Vault (GMV). Deep within the same mountain that houses the Global Seed Vault (also known as the Dooms Day Vault), capsules of … » Read

The 2023-24 season at London’s Wigmore Hall will include over 500 concerts, which, the Hall claims, is the largest program of classical music in the U.K, performed by some 2,600 artists. On the schedule are 28 world and U.K. premieres. … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s fourth season at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony will feature four world premieres, two one-act operas, a staging of Ravel’s Mother Goose ballet, four weeks of concerts led by Music Director Laureate Michael … » Read

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized — and unrealized — for more than 20 years. Frances Pace Barnes, the pioneering composer and … » Read

Earlier this month, news went out that Apple Music Classical, the long-awaited successor to Primephonic as a streaming music app dedicated to classical music—and equipped with search capabilities far better suited to classical than those of … » Read

Chalk up a win for those pushing back against the BBC’s full-on assault on classical music in the U.K. After intense pressure from musicians, the public, members of Parliament, and a petition signed by 140,000 people, the broadcaster has … » Read