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This is the advance publicity pic for a mass joint performance by the Czech Philharmonic and the Bamberg Symphony of Mahler’s 7th symphony. The open-air concert will be conducted in Prague on September 11 by […]

The Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, new chief of the Staatskapelle Dresden, has taken another job as ‘artistic partner’ of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The announcement has yet to be made. HK Phil lacks a […]

The pioneering early music group has posted: We mourn the passing of Jim Nicolson, one of Boston’s early music pioneers: musician, impresario, and one of the first participants in Camerata concerts. His benevolent, welcoming presence […]

Finnish and Estonian newspapers report that the wreckage of a civilian airliner shot down by the Russians on June 14, 1940 has been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The plane had been […]

The LPC has named an associate conductor to shadow Artistic Director Neville Creed in his final season, and cover the next four years. She is Victoria (Tori) Longdon, Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus. […]

The rising Finn Tarmo Peltokoski, at 24 the youngest conductor ever signed by Deutsche Grammophon, talks to BR about his formative influences: ‘I don’t really come from a musical family, but Mozart’s music was always […]

Kafka’s Metamorphosis – Royal Ballet  To recognise the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death this week, I found this excerpt from Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, adapted as a ballet by choreographer Arthur Pita.   It had […]

Message from Domestica Rotterdam: Domestica will stop After a long time of weeks and weighed a button: Domestica Rotterdam will stop. Financial uncertainty, losing a permanent playing spot, little opportunity to repeat concerts, new ambitions […]

San Francisco Symphony’s Chief Artistic Officer, Phillippa Cole, is joining the Opus 3 agency as Senior Vice President. Previously at the LA Phil, she formed a close partnership with Esa-Pekka Salonen in San Francisco. She […]

Fresh up on Youtube, the third concerto is one of Martha’s lifelong warhorses. Be amazed. The post Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima appeared first on Slippedisc.