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The Easter Festival was founded by Herbert von Karajan with his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in residence. Things went bellyup a few years back when the Berlin Phil accepted a better offer from Baden-Baden. Next season […]

The BBC Philharmonic has lost Mark Wigglesworth next Saturday ‘for personal reasons’. Flying in will be Yoel Gamzou, known for the sensitive performing edition he had published of Mahler’s 10th symphony. It’s his UK symphonic […]

This weekend, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the New World Symphony in what he has announced as the last concerts of his life. Michael, who is dealing with the recurrence of brain cancer, founded the orchestra […]

A long time ago I was advised that anyone who wants to get an interview with Margerich needs to hang around with her a few times at three in the morning and she might, eventually, […]

The Belgian/American conductor Giulio Cilona, 29, is stepping in for Maestro Fabio Luisi who has withdrawn for family reasons at the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Torino. He will conduct Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto […]

Message from the Munich Philharmonic: This week we are going on tour to Musikverein Wien & Müpa Budapest but Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla unfortunately had to cancel our upcoming concert tour due to an urgent family situation. […]

In 1999, I named a seat at the Royal Opera House after my eldest sister. She had been a devoted operagoer in the 1950s and my kid brother’s nod to her past happiness was much […]

There has been a hugely positive response to the Wigmore Hall’s decision to sack the interfering body that dispenses funds to the arts. Just search the slippedisc.com site for the sheer variety of opposition. But […]

Message received: On 27 and 28 June, musicians from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Iranian musicians perform a special programme together at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw in collaboration with the Holland Festival. Under the direction of André […]