Bartok gets the Levit treatment

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt is 98. Still going strong. Must surely be the oldest maestro to stand (or sit) in front of the Vienna Philharmonic. The post Today’s other birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.

Kirill Petrenko cancelled much of February and March upon ‘urgent medical advice’ But he’s back with the orchestra this week, conducting rehearsals for Easter’s Madam Butterfly in Baden-Baden.   The post Berlin Phil chief is […]

Message from the excellent French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras: ‘After last week’s horrific spectacle at the White House—staged to humiliate President Zelensky—and the U.S.’s rapid shift away from the fundamental freedoms and democratic ideals that Europe […]