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The new pressure group has published a list of a couple of hundred signees. Only half a dozen are familiar names: Jordi Savall (pic) Sean Shibe Laurence Cummings Christina Pluhar Sophie Daneman Michael Barenboim Vera […]

The San Francisco Symphony has appointed a new associate concertmaster Jason Issokson (pic), replacing Nadya Tichman who retired three years ago. Also joining are oboist Brooks Fisher, second violins Hyeon Jin Cho and Kingston Ho, […]

The Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy, has been won by Yifan Wu, from China. He also won the audience prize. The post Shanghai lad, 19, wins Premio Busoni appeared first on Slippedisc.

Louise Alder is the first British singer for a decade to feature in the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. (Don’t ask why, just happened that way.) Louise, who spent a decade at Frankfurt Oper, […]

From an interview with Bruce Duffie in 2005: Many young conductors come up and ask for advice.  It is hard, you know.  The first thing is that real talent needs not so much advice.  It […]

The latest UK lobby group is organising a ‘culture workers march’. The German countertenor Andreas Scholl is troubled by it. He writes: Open letter in response to the statement of “Classical music for Palestine”. The […]

Here’s this week’s Applce Classical streaming top ten, released exclusively on slippedisc. The fastest rising entrant is a confection of Beethoven for piano trio. On its ghastly cover, Yo Yo Ma looks like Gustav Mahler, […]

Alan Gilbert: Very few people have had such an impact on my musical life as Christoph von Dohnányi, here in a picture from after conducting a memorable Deutsches Requiem. Esa-Pekka and I were just this […]

In 1991, a few months after my book The Maestro Myth was published, I had a call from Dohnanyi, who was in his fourth season as principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. ‘We’ve never met,’ […]

The former Cleveland Orchestra conductor died on Saturday at the age of 95. He led Cleveland from 1984 to 2002, preserving its singular character along with a refinement that led to widespread recognition as the […]