Our roving critic Susan Hall went to see John Adams’ version of Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. No-one there seems to remember the Samuel Barber opera that opened the new Met in 1966. […]
This week’s Apple Classical hit-list, exclusive to slippedisc.com: 1 Shostakovich: Piano Concertos… Yuja Wang, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons 2 Rimsky-Korsakov / Rachmaninoff/Dvorak Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorenzo Viotti 3 Field: Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott 4 […]
The 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize is to be awarded to Sir Simon Rattle, 70, ‘in recognition of his lifetime dedication to music’. The prize comes with a 250,000 Euros money order. It will […]
The background to this morning’s election of the next music director at La Scala is becoming a little clearer. As so often, the data say it all. Myung Whun Chung debuted at La Scala in […]
In the past few minutes it has been decided that the next chief at La Scala will be the Korean conductor Myung Whun Chung. Catch your breath. He will start in 2027. The favourite to […]
The formidable organist and pianist Alena Štěpánková-Veselá has died two months short of her 102nd birthday. She taught for more than half a cnetury at the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Performing […]
Musicians are mourning Andrzej Haluch, one of the most effective artist managers in Poland and eastern Europe. His artists included Daniil Trifonov, Kian Soltani, Mischa Maisky and the Borodin Quartet. Pianist Lukas Geniušas writes: ‘One […]
The Yehudi Menuhin School has chosen its next head, replacing Ashley Wass in September. She is violist Rosalind Ventris, Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford and an active chamber […]
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has named a successor to its outgoing Dutch music director, Pieter-Jelle de Boer. Coming in will be the Dutch conductor, Arie Van Beek. International search? The post Dutch keep […]
We are informed that Oliver Aldort, assistant principal cello of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, won the May 6 audition for 1st principal cello at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Oliver has played in the Boston Symphony […]
