Arguably the least musical US national anthem

Conductor Jay Fishman will give his last concerts with the Minnesota Sinfonia this weekend. After that, the orchestra will cease to exist. Fishman, 77, founded it in 1989 to play concerts in schools and for […]

The Sicilian conductor Francesco Angelico makes his debut at the Opéra de Montpellier with an exceptional operatic programme focused entirely on Italian repertoire.  This is streamed for Slippedisc readers courtesy of OperaVision. A connoisseur of […]

The lovely mezzo-soprano Margaret Cable died on Tuesday of complications following surgery. She was 82. Married to the LSO tuba virtuoso John Fletcher (who died in 1987), Cable sang at festivals across Europe and the […]