Classical Music Reviews
Enjoyment, exploration & sheer virtuosic fun: Sisters from Karine Deshayes & Delphine Haidan
Sisters: music by Rossini, Viardot, Gluck/Berlioz, Berlioz, Bertin, Bellini, Grandval, Saint-Saens; Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan, Orchestre national Avignon-Provence, conductor Débora Waldman; NoMadMusicReviewed 13 June 2025 Part celebration, part luxuriant delight: Malibran and Viardot celebrated in […]
Dresden Festspiele II: Britten and Shostakovich in Dresden
Britten, Shostakovich Augustin Hadelich (violin); Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Sanderling (conductor). Kulturpalast, Dresden, 13.06.2025 Britten Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15 (1939) Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 (1943) Great […]
Early Music Day in Oxford
The Continuo Foundation is joining forces with Oxford Festival of the Arts to present an Early Music Day on Saturday 12 July 2025 at Magdalen College. The day will consist of two afternoon concerts by Continuo […]
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Opera in the heart of Clapham: St Paul’s Opera’s Summer Opera Festival
Rehearsal images from St Paul’s Opera’s forthcoming production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore My local opera company, St Paul’s Opera is presenting its annual Summer operatic staging at St Paul’s Church, Clapham next month (3 to […]
Classical Music News
Poppy’s Comet is seen in New York
A report for slippedisc.com by Susan Hall: Yuval Sharon and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) represent the future of opera. Their opening-night production signals a bold new direction for a grand institution long in […]
Russian pianist, 84
One of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser, the Moscow pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina died today at the age of 84. Banned for a while by the Soviets, she taught in London at the Royal […]
Simon Rattle remembers Alfred Brendel’s tortoise
The conductor has written a fond tribute to his longtime friend and mentor. Hard even to know where to start with Alfred: for any musician of my generation he was simply always there, the very […]
Classical guitarist is suspended in Barcelona
The Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona has suspended a classical guitar teacher following a complaint by a student over alleged sexual assaults. An 18-year-old student accused the teacher of “touching her intimate parts,” according to El […]
