200 years of Bruckner, 35 years of Ebracher Musiksommer: Maestro Gerd Schaller interviewed by Ken Ward
Ken Ward in conversation with conductor Gerd Schaller
Articles & Interviews
The master list of news, features and interviews
Lloyd’s Choir premieres Jacques Cohen’s new choral work on 27 March at St Giles Cripplegate Church
LLOYD’S CHOIR SPRING 2025 CONCERT WILL FEATURE PREMIERE OF NEW WORK BY JACQUES COHEN, COMMEMORATING THE SINKING OF HMT LANCASTRIA DURING WORLD WAR II
Lloyd’s Choir Spring Concert 27 March 2025, 7pm – St Giles Cripplegate Church, Fore Street, London, EC2Y 8DA
Lloyd’s Choir
Cohen Ensemble
Jacques Cohen (conductor and music director)
Mendelssohn – Psalm 114
Jacques Cohen – ‘Lancastria’
Rossini – Stabat Mater
Puzzling BBC presentations on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Agnes Kory considers the BBC’s programming on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 Full credit to the BBC for giving its all to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day which on 27th January this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the many BBC programmes, I attended two and watched one on BBC2. … Read more
Ballet Icons Gala returns on 9 March 2025 at the London Coliseum
BALLET ICONS GALA IN 2025 WILL BE A MESMERIZING CELEBRATION OF DANCE AND WILL HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS
Globally recognized Ballet Icons Gala is set to enchant audiences once again at the London Coliseum on 9 March 2025. A global highlight on the ballet calendar, this much-anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening, celebrating the unparalleled beauty of classical and contemporary ballet.
The Last Musician of Auschwitz: A documentary fulfilling the need to bear witness and preserve memory
United Kingdom The Last Musician of Auschwitz: Toby Trackman (director), Deborah Lee (producer), Shown on BBC 2 (and available on BBC iPlayer for 11 months), 27.1.2025. (CSa)
The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – 21 to 30 August
The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – Opera for Everyone
The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 (full details CLICK HERE) will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically acclaimed by international publications, the 2025 Festival will be even more exciting, engaging, and accessible: we will show that Opera is for everyone, and for everywhere.
Teatro Colón in 2025
Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere
Ongoing but albeit improving difficult economic conditions in Argentina are reflected in the forthcoming 2025 opera season at the Teatro Colón – not least in the sparse prospectus for the year, compared with the more comprehensive and substantial editions of previous years.
Like 2024, the 2025 season foresees just seven works but a diverse selection and four of them as new local productions with only two having been put on previously within the last decade.
Teodor Doré’s Rachmaninoff Variations album is out soon; live premiere New York (29 Jan) and London concert (8 March)
Crimean-Born Pianist And Composer To Debut ‘Rachmaninoff Variations’ In New York And London – Exploring Historical Parallels Through Innovative Reworkings Of The Great Master
Teodor Doré is proud to present his new project entitled Rachmaninoff Variations, forthcoming on the DAG Klassical label in spring of 2025. There will be a live premiere in New York City on January 29th at Carnegie’s Hall’s Weill Recital Rooms, and a later concert with The London City Philharmonic will take place on 8th March at Holy Trinity Church in Chelsea’s Sloane Square.