The Metropolitan Opera has been ordered to pay over $200,000 in compensation to Anna Netrebko after the cancelation of a number of her performances last year. The company had taken the step after the Russian soprano declined to denounce Vladimir … » Read

Senior U.S. composer John Adams has joined the growing chorus of disapproval at the BBC’s decision to axe its elite choir, the BBC Singers. The California-based musician regularly conducts BBC orchestras, and in 2017 called on both the BBC … » Read

Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony has its share of brutal dissonance—no question about that—yet some critics called it, according to the composer, an homage to the major third, a sonority as unlike dissonance as one … » Read

Producer Tom Kirdahy has announced that Stephen Sondheim’s final musical will make it to the stage this fall. Here We Are is the new title for the show formerly known as Square One , a work inspired by a pair of surrealist movies by … » Read

Pentatone has announced an ongoing recording project with American conductor Karina Canellakis. The Dutch boutique label has launched what it describes as a long-term, multi-album partnership with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra … » Read

Walker & Dawson George Walker is enjoying a boomtime right now with the National Symphony Orchestra recording all five Sinfonias , and a recent disc from The Cleveland Orchestra that included Lilacs , the first work by an African American … » Read

The Borlotti Buitoni Trust has announced that Filippo Gorini will be the recipient of its biennial Franco Buitoni Award. The young Italian pianist receives £25,000 (approximately $30,000) in recognition of his farsighted “Sonata for … » Read

Aaron Cohen seems to be taking a leaf out of Gustav Mahler’s own book in the third instalment of “Embrace Everything,” his ongoing series of deep-diving podcasts illuminating the composer’s immersive symphonies. Where … » Read

A union between early-music ensemble Hesperus and silent films from the 1920s would seem an unlikely one, but the success of the group’s 12 silent-movie soundtracks over the past two decades has proven otherwise. The Three Musketeers … » Read

Applications close on April 20 for the 77th Concours de Genève String Quartet and Flute Competitions 2023. The latter is open to candidates born after November 4, 1993. the former to string quartets whose members were born after October … » Read