LA Phil aims to sell 3 nights of Boulez
Next year markss the centenary of the ultra-modernist’s birth and E-P Salonen is putting on a show in LA, Here’s the prog: Thursday, May 8, at 8:00 PM Saturday, May 10, at 8:00 PM Sunday, […]
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Bavaria honours Bayreuth’s breakthrough baton
The special award of Bavaria’s culture prizes for 2024 was bestowed today on the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, the first woman to conduct an opera at the Bayreuth Festival. ‘Oksana Lyniv is a top-class conductor, […]
Watch: The bells of Notre Dame are ringing again
The cathedral will reopen a month from now. The post Watch: The bells of Notre Dame are ringing again appeared first on Slippedisc.
Messiah is cancelled at school ‘due to religious content’
There is a public outcry in Finland after a junior school in Uusima cancelled a concert of Handel’s Messiah by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Choir, apparently out of anxiety that its […]
My concerto’s so much better than the movies…
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I had tea once with Miklos Rozsa in a friend’s flat, around the corner from Abbey Road. It was my first encounter with a Golden Age Hollywood composer, […]
Break a string? I only needed three anyway
From US violinist Stefan Jackiw: Last week in a performance with my Junction Trio (@conradtao and @autocellic ) at @92ndstreety , my string broke during the climax of Shostakovich’s piano trio no. 2. I didn’t […]
The sound of wind, sunlight or water: pianist Anna Tsybuleva on her new recording of Debussy’s Préludes on Signum Classics
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Anna Tsybuleva with hr-Sinfonieorchester, Alain Altinoglu I first chatted to pianist Anna Tsybuleva back in 2021 (by Zoom from her house in the Caucasus) when having won the Leeds […]
Graupner, Solo & Dialogue Cantatas II
This is the first recording of these so-called “Dialogue Cantatas,” but it is certainly not the first appearance of the music of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): on this site: previously, we covered his bassoon “cantatas” (also […]
Live Traviata at Mannheim
Giuseppe Verdi creates a portrait of a society that tries to forget all its misery in the splendour of glittering parties. Violetta wants to break free, leave her past life behind and seek happiness with […]
Rattle and RPO to make Lucerne debuts
Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]
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