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From our resident agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I have ten private students, and I ask the parents to pay in cash. Most do, but there are three who don’t. I send out email reminders […]

The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, long based in Berlin, died yesterday at the age of 66. Ablinger founded and led the Ensemble Zwischentöne and was much concerned with turning speech into music. The post Berlin […]

The soprano, 85 today, made her debut at 15 in Barber of Seville before being groomed by Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. She says: No-one has sung as long as I have, not even […]

The Herbert von Karajan Prize, founbded in 2017 by his widow Eliette, is to be awarded today to the soprano Nadezhda Karyazina, making her debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival, and to Maxim Emelyanychev who […]

Message from the Musikhochschule Münster in western Germany: Musikhochschule Münstermourns YeJi Lee Our student YeJi Lee aka Celine passed away in April. She was a victim of a tragic accident in her home country of […]

Patrick Drijver has made a film about collectors trying to buy a fortepiano made by Beethoven’s bet friend, Nanette Streicher. It’s full of illuminations. Contributions by by: Alexander Melnikov, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andreas Staier, Robert Levin, […]

By Alessandro Scarlatti. A Belgian performance of the Neapolitan work. The post The other St John Passion appeared first on Slippedisc.

The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]

The death has been published today of Adrian Gnam, George Szell’s principal oboe at the Cleveland Orchestra and later music director of the Macon Symphony Orchestra in Georgia for 27 years. Her served for eight […]

The manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Pont, has circulated an open letter to colleagues, lashing out at the Süddeutsche Zeitung for minimising reviews of the orchestra. ‘I heard at the end of […]