Friends are reporting the death today of Rohan de Saram, cellist of the trailblazing Arditti Quartet for quarter of a century, from 1979 to 2005. Rohan was 85. Born in Sheffield to Sri Lankan parents, […]
Spiros Rantos died in Brisbane on Friday. Obituary by Breandáin O’Shea. Born in Corfu in 1945, Rantos studied in Athens and, at 18, was offered a position at Linz Opera by its visiting chief conductor. […]
Starting out as assistant conductor to Antal Dorati in Minneapolis, Dr Robert Berglund founded the Minnesota Chorale and was Director of Music (1969-1995) at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church, the largest Lutheran congregation in the United […]
The Amsterdam concert hall surprised its Sunday-morning soloist today with the award of a long-service medal. Ronald Brautigam had just finished the third Beethoven piano concerto with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra when General manager Simon […]
From a brilliant FT column by mathematician Tim Harford: Mozart and Haydn were composing string quartets a quarter of a millennium ago, when the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Since then, the scale of […]
The Joachim violin competition has a rotten record in producing winners. Over 33 years, it has failed to deliver a world-conquering soloist. For several years, as we documented on slippedisc.com, the competition was dominated by […]
The jury, without revealing the proportions of their split, divided the first prize in Hanover last night between Angela Chan, 27, from Hong Kong and the 19-year-old Canadian Jacques Forestier. The Canadian came away with […]
Composer John Adams made this event of modern history the subject of his first opera. Premiered in 1987, this a mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic […]
The Lightest Element Imagine you’re a Cambridge Doctoral candidate of surpassing brilliance. It’s 1925. You’ve made a scientific discovery that will turn the world of astronomy on its ear and you’ve written it up as […]
Musicians of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus demonstrated in solidarity with striking radio staff, delaying the start of the St Matthew Passion on Thursday night. The musicians themselves are seeking a 10.5 percent […]