This Friday Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision is in Oslo for Norwegian National Opera’s new production of The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky’s neoclassical dark comedy. Igor Stravinsky wrote The Rake’s Progress in 1951, based on eight satirical paintings by […]
A reader has asked us to identify Alexander Maloffeev’s post-Gershwin encore (38:00 on the video) from this description: Over an elaborately arpeggiated left hand, the right hand plays a chordal descending major scale of […]
The transitioning City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is advertising for a part-time wellbeing executive, attending one and a half working days a month. It is not clear whose wellbeing is in need of attention. Presumably […]