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The president of the Kapan Festival in Armenia has written to slippedisc.com, denying a report that Martha Argerich had been hospitalised. Martha’s daughter Annie Dutoit has posted on social media: My mother Martha Argerich has […]

The NDR Vokalensemble and many hundreds of guest singers under the baton of Simon Halsey at the Sing-along Concert 2025. On the program: works by John Rutter, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Gabriel Fauré, Anton Bruckner and others. […]

In his final opera, Jacques Offenbach made E.T.A. Hoffmann, the most famous poet of the Romantic period, into his main character. The poet explores the threshold between reality and fantasy in a fascinating way in […]

Voces8 on top form. The post A British ensemble’s prayer from Munich appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Odesa Philharmonic united will never be defeated. The conductor is Hobart Earle. The post Beating the Russians back with Bruckner appeared first on Slippedisc.

A Brahms Intermezzo, played by smokin’ Annie Fischer. The post Better than any mezzo…. appeared first on Slippedisc.

Presently solo English horn at the New York Philharmonic, Ryan Roberts has announced himself on social media as the next principal oboe in the LA Philharmonic. The LA seat is kept warm by frequent rotation. […]

A weekly review from our critic-in-residence, Alastair Macaulay: The tenor Ian Bostridge is sixty, but sounds much younger. On Sunday 6 July, he and the master Schubertian pianist Steven Osborne gave a recital of Schubert’s […]

We have been notified of the passing of Raymond Guiot, a student of Marcel Moyse who went on to teach many players who were successful around the world. He was principal flute at the Opéra […]

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.