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The trumpet star has announced that next month’s Last Night of the Proms will be her farewell performance. Balsom, who is 46, has enjoyed a solo career for 24 years. The last piece she plays […]

A group calling itself ‘Jewish Artists for Palestine’ caused a ten-minute break in last night’s Melbourne Symphony concert at the BBC Proms. The group issued a claim to the effect that they had targeted the […]

The city of Kiel has announced that its music director, Gabriel Feltz, died unexpectedly on Friday at Essen University Hospital. Feltz, who was also music director of  the Belgrade Philharmonic, was 55. No cause of […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Sitting in the dental hygienist’s chair, my ears slathered with Classic FM, I cried out for something like this richly varied album where one composer was born in […]

New York City Ballet Click here to watch ​ Here are two masterpieces choreographed by George Balanchine for his beloved New York City Ballet, Serenade and Square Dance. They were recorded during the company’s European […]

A seminal moment in music history. The post Simon Rattle asks: Why did Brahms in his early 30s write a Requiem? appeared first on Slippedisc.

Top track from Dido and Aeneas, out next month on Warner:     The post Trailing Joyce’s new release appeared first on Slippedisc.

One of his rarer beauties for female chorus. The post Time for Brahms? appeared first on Slippedisc.

Friends of Rodion Shchedrin, who died last night, are sharing reminiscences online: Pianist Denis Matsuev: Ten years have passed since the muse Rodion Konstantinovich, the great Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya passed away. And today her husband […]

Some more happy news. The splendid Italian soprano Federica Lombardi will sing Donna Anna in the Met’s opening run of Don Giovanni from September 24. Then she will withdraw for six months to have her […]