The Athens Symphony Orchestra has called off a November concert with Denis Matsuev, an occasional adviser to Vladimir Putin. It said: ‘Throughout its many years of activity, the Orchestra has served artistic excellence as well […]
In the coming season of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the prolific conducting teacher Jorma Panula will share a concert with his latest produgy, Maximilian Fagerlund. Panula is 95 years old, Fagerlund 18. The son of […]
The new pressure group has published a list of a couple of hundred signees. Only half a dozen are familiar names: Jordi Savall (pic) Sean Shibe Laurence Cummings Christina Pluhar Sophie Daneman Michael Barenboim Vera […]
The San Francisco Symphony has appointed a new associate concertmaster Jason Issokson (pic), replacing Nadya Tichman who retired three years ago. Also joining are oboist Brooks Fisher, second violins Hyeon Jin Cho and Kingston Ho, […]
The Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy, has been won by Yifan Wu, from China. He also won the audience prize. The post Shanghai lad, 19, wins Premio Busoni appeared first on Slippedisc.
Louise Alder is the first British singer for a decade to feature in the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. (Don’t ask why, just happened that way.) Louise, who spent a decade at Frankfurt Oper, […]
From an interview with Bruce Duffie in 2005: Many young conductors come up and ask for advice. It is hard, you know. The first thing is that real talent needs not so much advice. It […]
The latest UK lobby group is organising a ‘culture workers march’. The German countertenor Andreas Scholl is troubled by it. He writes: Open letter in response to the statement of “Classical music for Palestine”. The […]
Here’s this week’s Applce Classical streaming top ten, released exclusively on slippedisc. The fastest rising entrant is a confection of Beethoven for piano trio. On its ghastly cover, Yo Yo Ma looks like Gustav Mahler, […]
Alan Gilbert: Very few people have had such an impact on my musical life as Christoph von Dohnányi, here in a picture from after conducting a memorable Deutsches Requiem. Esa-Pekka and I were just this […]
