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Dear Alma, I was wondering why there is this fad where musicians play orchestral music by heart. It brings nothing to the music! The musicians don’t get paid a soloist’s or a chamber music fee […]

Paul Philbert, principal timpanist of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,has been appointed to the same position in the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. He will take up the position next month, commuting between […]

We have been chatting to Shasta Ellenbogen, a Canadian violist who founded a naked string quartet in Berlin, intermittently the talk of the town. They are serious musicians whose next dates are 23 and 30 […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS) ***/** It’s a mark of how far Naxos have come under new ownership that a label which once churned out the complete […]

From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]

Anna Starushkevych’s fascinating newsletter has produced a bulletin from Maestro Roman Dzundza of the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic, ‘a mosaic of the cultural existence of a Ukrainian symphony orchestra’: The obvious challenges start with the orchestra’s budget […]

The Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra play Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben – in defiance of constant Russian threats.     The post A hero’s life – from Ukraine appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2026, worth a million Danish crowns (about £120k). He will be required to conduct the DR Symphony Orchestra at a gala concert next […]

The London Symphony has informed us that Kurt Hans Goedicke passed away yesterday morning as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. He was LSO Principal Timpani from 1964 to 2000. Goedicke was a […]

The Utah conductor Robert Baldwin – music director of Salt Lake Symphony and Professor of Music at University of Utah – has issued an appeal for the release of his former concertmaster John Shin, who […]