BACKEvery day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.
Classical Music Magazine
Yorkshire Libraries takes decision to close music & drama service.
Yorkshire Libraries & Information (YLI) council, at a meeting held at the end of September, decided to ‘to close the [YLI] Music and Drama collection and service as it currently exists.
Classical Music Magazine
Barbican appoints ‘thrilled’ Angela Dixon head of music
The Barbican Centre has appointed Angela Dixon as its new head of music. She succeeds Robert van Leer, who left the Barbican in August after 15 years to take up the post of managing director of the Nederlands Dans Theater in Amsterdam, writes Samara Ginsberg.
The Guardian
Tarik O’Regan’s debut opera is also the first to set to music joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella, which famously received a high-profile movie adaptation as Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in 1979.
The Telegraph
Anne-Sophie Mutter: New music is just so liberating
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter talks to Adam Sweeting about her latest CD.
The Times (£)
The tales of Hoffmann at the ‘Nationaltheatre’ Munich.
Should you board a plane now? Yes, if catching A-list singers, in this case the excitable Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and the German soprano of the moment, Diana Damrau, are a priority.
The Times (£)
The top nine symphonies chosen by Times writers
The First: Debra Craine on Bizet, The Second: Neil Fisher on Mahler…
