Slipped Disc

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no […]

The young Turkish violinist Laçin Akyol, a music student in Switzerland, has been killed by a speeding car while visiting home in Mersin. The driver has been placed under house arrest. Laçin, whose parents are […]

David Krauss’s guest this week on Speaking Soundly is jazz singer and Macarthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, who comes out as a Puccini obssessive. She says: ‘I wonder what it would be like to be […]

Although nothing has shown up on their website, promoters of the current US tour of the Hagen Quartet have proclaimed it as their last. The Austrian quartet, comprising twp brothers and two sisters (one of […]

The saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, who is registered disabled, has been sentenced to six years in prison for posting anti-war messages nd taking part in demontstrations. Shabanov (pictured) has psoriatic arthritis, an autoimmune disease that will […]

It is reported that the well-known St Petersburg musician Vadim Stroykin fell from the window of his 10th floor apartment ‘while being visited by the security services’. Kremlin-lined social media sites said he ‘went into […]

The Alastair Macaulay review: Phaedra/ Minotaur, 07.02.2025 Now that the Royal Opera House has been rebranded as Royal Ballet and Opera, it could use a few productions that combine the two art forms. Unfortunately, its […]

Every weekend from now, Slippedisc will publish a review by Alastair Macaulay, one of the most respected active critics of the lively arts. Alastair was chief dance critic of the New York Times for 12 […]

The death is recorded of the veteran German opera director Hans-Peter Lehmann, at 90 years old. Originally from Kassel, he assisted Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner at Bayreuth from 1960 and 1973. He opened his account […]

We reported yesterday that the Spanish violinist Raquel Areal Martinez had been admitted to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchsetra. Also passing the audition was Eduardo Rios Silva, a violinist from Lima who is presently first assistant […]