Slipped Disc

Word from the West Coast: Important Concert Update: Due to illness, both Michael Tilson Thomas and Yuja Wang must cancel their appearances on February 1 with the LA Phil. OK, that’s unfortunate, these tbhings happen. […]

The Sicilian conductor Francesco Angelico makes his debut at the Opéra de Montpellier with an exceptional operatic programme focused entirely on Italian repertoire.  This is streamed for Slippedisc readers courtesy of OperaVision. A connoisseur of […]

Janine Jansen & Friends Here’s a stunning live performance of Schubert’s Octet in F Maj D.803, from violinist Janine Jansen and her friends at the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival. It’s so good, I watched […]

The Sixties singer and Mick Jagger girlfriend died today in London aged 78. Austrian-Jewish on her mother’s side, Marianne grew up in the north of England in considerable poverty. Starting out as a folk singer, […]

Gerard Schwarz writes: I am so saddened by the passing of my dear friend Andrew Grossman. We are about the same age and played in the New York Youth Symphony when we were in high […]

Agam Berger, seized in pyjamas and held in Hamas tunnels for 15 months, was returned home today. Local reports say that the Israeli army had her violin waiting to greet her at the reception centre. […]

Conspiracy theorists are chattering about the Finnish conductor’s first appearance at the summer festival in four decades. Salonen got on well with Boston Symphony Prez Chad Smith when both were at the LA Phil. Boston […]

The pre-college tutors are paid much less the Juilliard profs and they’ve had enough. Here’s the union version: On Feb. 1, the Association Representing Teaching Staff at Manhattan School of Music will launch its first […]

Born in October 1921 and active in every style of contemporary music from serialism to classicism, the Turkish composer Ilhan Usmanbaş died today in a care facility. He composed 120 published scores, many of them […]

Creative Scotland has award multi-year funding to a range of orgs, including the Edinburgh International Festival, which has been on standstill grants since 2008. Under the new deal, the Fest will get £3.25m this year, […]