English pianist, 83
The death has been made known of the versatile and personable pianist Marlene Fleet, who died yesterday at the age of 83. The latter part of her career was marred by rheumatoid arthritis. Marlene gave […]
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Salonen in San Francisco: The End
Message received overnight: Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as SF Symphony Music Director on a transcendent note, conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, & the SF Symphony & Chorus. The […]
Nicola Benedetti joins Classic FM
The violinist and Edinburgh Festival chief will present a six-part Froday-night series on the commercial station this summer. Titled ‘The Truth About Classical Music with Nicola Benedetti’, it echoes the festival’s theme, ‘The Truth We […]
Paris talks of tearing down the Bastille
The troubled opera house, inaugurated in 1989 as a model of modernity, is scheduled to shut for three years from 2030 because it is falling apart. The stage is on the verge of collapse. The […]
The orchestra with broken instruments
There appear to be a new release of a 2021 documentary about an orchestra of Israelis and Palestinians in which all the instruments have been retrieved from dumps or are broken almost beyond repair. The […]
They are still playing piano at the damaged Weizmann Institute
Despite a strike by an Iranian missile on Israel’s premier scientific research centre, students and professors are making the most of what’s left. This is the most Israeli thing I’ve seen. Taken at the Weizmann […]
Maria João Pires: I shall be away for a while
The much-loved Portuguese pianist, who suffered a small stroke last week, has posted this message (with picture): Dear friends, I regret to inform you that I will have to step away from the stage for […]
Another artist is killed by Putin’s forces
The violinist Lisa Batiashvili has reported the death in action of the Ukrainian actor Yurii Felipenko. Every day another world extinguished. The post Another artist is killed by Putin’s forces appeared first on Slippedisc.
Here’s this summer’s soaraway Spanish hit
The most listened-to item on Apple Classical this past week has been an album of serenades on Deutsche Grammophon by the French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, played on 19th century instruments. Raphaël Feuillâtre, 28, was born […]
A box-set honouring one record producer
The Australian compilation brand Eloquence has come up with a set of recordings acknowledging the life’s work of Otto Gerdes, best known as Herbert von Karajan’s main producer on Deutsche Grammophon. Gerdes was also a […]
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