What’s missing from “Maestro” nytimes.com/2023/12/22/art…

Riccardo Muti called her “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet.” But Anita Rachvelishvili has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. nytimes.com/2023/12/20/art…

Callas at 100 🌞 nytimes.com/2023/11/29/art…

More classical music music albums you can hear right now, including Zachary Woolfe on Igor Levit, sethcolterwalls.bsky.social on Darcy James Argue & a few words from me on Isabelle Faust's transfixing album of late Baroque solo violin music (sans Bach) bit.ly/474eHYF

I reviewed the last concert of the Emerson String Quartet, a group that has beaten at the heart of chamber music in the United States, and far beyond, for almost half a century. nytimes.com/2023/10/23/art…

Waltraud Meier’s final curtain call — PANDEMONIUM!

James Jorden, 1954-2023, the keeper of the flame. I will miss him a lot. nytimes.com/2023/10/04/art…

I spent the end of my summer in Tsinandali, Georgia, where I wrote a longread profile of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra for VAN Magazine. Strap in!

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This month's 5 Classical Albums features Zachary Woolfe on Sphinx Organization Virtuosi, David Allen on Pichon's Monteverdi Vespers, sethcolterwalls.bsky.social on A Far Cry, Oussama Zahr on Bianconi's Ravel & a few words from me on the NSO's complete Walker Sinfonias. bit.ly/3ETrAJ8

Christian Thielemann wird ab 2024 die Nachfolge von Daniel Barenboim als Generalmusikdirektor an der Staatsoper Berlin antreten. Das verkündete Senator Joe Chialo soeben bei der Pressekonferenz vor Ort. Chialo: „Mit ihm sichern wir höchste musikalische Exzellenz für unsere Stadt.“

I reviewed the premiere of Barrie Kosky’s “Rheingold” in London nytimes.com/2023/09/12/art…

In Lucerne, Vladimir Jurowski asks that climate activists are allowed to speak, threatens to leave the stage when they are interrupted, then sits on the podium to listen.

Join us in wishing Michael Riesman a happy 80th birthday!  Michael has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, and since has served at its Music Director now for 47 years!  This includes every major premiere by the ensemble since Music in 12 Parts and EINSTEIN ON

visit Charles Busch in his Greenwich Village duplex, where he has a bed fit for Gene Tierney, to talk about his new memoir, 'Leading Lady.'nytimes.com/2023/09/07/the…

Diamanda Galás is fierce as ever on the sentence given to the woman who murdered her voice teacher, and the way our society treats the aged

Finally listening to this and David is right: Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky 5 “gives the symphony all the harrowing drama — the dread, the instability, the vertiginous sense of being on the edge — of a mental breakdown.” nytimes.com/2023/08/31/art…

Your guide to the classical fall season! nytimes.com/2023/09/04/art…

Harmonia Mundi? Partially owned by Universal. Hyperion? Acquired by Universal. BIS? Now 'part of the Apply family,' per this announcement today.

How long can the other major, independent labels last?

The indispensable Manny Ax, profiled by ⁦David Allen⁩. I’ve been guilty of taking him for granted — maybe you have, too. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/art…

News: JEG out for the rest of the season