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We’ve stumbled across this gorgeous new piece, commissioned in memory of the British nurse Edith Cavell who was executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium in the First World War. It’s by Ryan Linham with […]

Richard Wagner’s only comic opera had a long gestation. Summer 1845: drawing on the History of German Literature as well as the biography of poet and shoemaker Hans Sachs, the composer sketches out ideas for a satirical […]

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale of San Francisco need an executive director to help pick a successor to Richard Egarr (pic). The next Executive Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will bring administrative […]

The concert is at 7pm local (6pm London, 1pm New York). Click below. The post How to hear the Jerusalem Quartet live in Amsterdam appeared first on Slippedisc.

No editorial comment could possibly match this inspired takeoff. Here’s a sampling of the original act.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by PianoWorldWide (@pianoworldwide) The post How to do a […]

The Solti Foundation U.S. has named 18 young American conductors to receive Career Assistance Awards. Of 50 applicants just five were women. The successful candidates are: Nathan Blair, Elias Brown, Austin Chanu, Maurice Cohn, Conner […]

This week’s guest on David Krauss’s podcast is the conductor Gerard Schwarz, who started out as co-principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic orchestra. Schwarz, 76, went on to become transformational music director of the […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are many reasons why Beethoven’s triple concerto usually fails on record. Most are to do with ego. In a regular concerto, there is one soloist, a conductor […]