I first met Mira Calix six years ago. My group, The Hermes Experiment, got in touch with her to ask if she would be interested in writing us a new piece. We had come across […]
Photo Credit: Manuel Nägeli About one week after the formal announcement of Apple Music Classical, Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially acquired British classical label Hyperion Records. The Big Three label revealed its latest buyout […]
Photo Credit: Samuel Sianipar After nearly two years of speculation, Apple Music Classical has officially been announced, and the standalone service will become available to subscribers later in March. Apple revealed its classical music streaming […]
Photo Credit: Manuel Nägeli Apple acquired the classical music service Primephonic in 2021. Since then, the company has been working hard to create a new classical music experience for Apple Music. Is Apple Music Classical […]
In the liner notes for her 1969 folk album Anthems in Eden, Shirley Collins wrote about the musician with whom she made it: her big sister, Dolly. Dolly had arranged the ambitious song cycle about […]
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been asked my thoughts on the film Tár these last few weeks. It seems as if everyone wants to know what it’s really like to be […]
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Photo Credit: Manuel Nägeli More evidence that Apple continues work on its classical music app has surfaced in code from iOS 16.3. The final stages of its beta test are underway, with a public release […]
Despite more than a decade now of dire predictions of the terminal decline of the classical recording industry there’s still no sign of its imminent demise. Companies may come and go, and the emphasis of […]
Photo Credit: Klaus Heymann © HNH International Ltd Klaus Heymann, founder of the Naxos classical label, discusses digital distribution, supporting new artists, and classical education in a drastically changing music climate. When Klaus Heymann entered […]
Title: A Comprehensive Intro to Naxos’ Importance In Bringing Classical Music Into the Digital Era Naxos is at the forefront of bringing classical music into the digital age. Naxos Records is the world’s leading classical […]
Photo Credit: Deutsche Grammophon The world’s oldest record label and a division of Universal Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon, launches a classical music streaming service. Deutsche Grammophon announces the launch of STAGE+, a classical music subscription service that […]
John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]
John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]
Music is “a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself”, wrote Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621. Yet music is not simply a cure […]
For his debut disc as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor, Domingo Hindoyan has brought together three of the most significant French ballet scores of the first half of the 20th century. Paul Dukas’s La […]
Cate Blanchett has played her share of formidable characters, rulers who could bring mere mortals to their knees with a single icy stare: Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth,” Galadriel in the “Lord of the Rings” […]
I confess I am a philistine when it comes to classical music. It’s not that I don’t like it – I went through a period as a teenager in Southend when I drove around with […]
Polyphonic paints drum & bass music a truly unique way—by uniting a 15-piece orchestra. Led by Fiber and The Fiber Pianist, the band aims to reframe the genre’s timeless hits into an awe-inspiring orchestral performance, breaking its […]
In January 2014, Lars Vogt stepped on to the stage at Sage Gateshead to make his UK conducting debut with Royal Northern Sinfonia. Lars had an endearing and quiet confidence, even when trying something new. […]