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Slipped Disc June 12, 2024

Bartok gets the Levit treatment

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Some curious expressions in a newly uploaded Bartok concertto featuring the winner of the German National award.

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Slipped Disc September 17, 2024

Watch Gheorghiu get booed off stage in Seoul

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Slipped Disc June 29, 2024

Ruth Leon recommends… Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Royal Ballet

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Royal Ballet Click here to subscribe (Subscription includes unlimited access to the Royal Opera House library of more than 80 ballets and operas) At a garden party on a sunny […]

Essential Listening Now: Sean Hickey’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Classical Archives April 13, 2025

Essential Listening Now: Sean Hickey’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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By Barry Lenson Sean Hickey’s epic solo piano work, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, in eight sections, is based on the book of the same name, written by Noah Harari. Sean’s Sapiens is played […]