The much-loved instrument maker George Stoppani died over Christmas. Aside from making instruments he created a brand of ‘Real Guts Strings’ and was an international authority on instrumental acoustics.
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Barrie Kosky’s most recent staging of the Ring continues at Covent Garden with Siegfried; the director had previously declared himself unsatisfied with his staging for Staatsoper Hannover in 2009-11. While this Ring still has one vital part to go, we […]
We met the Rautio Piano Trio prev9ously with a post entitled What was Beethoven’s Op. 1? The answer is three piano trios, and the ensemble played the first two of the on that Resonus Classics […]
Meet Chloe Higgins. She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth. Blow the winds, southerly. The post New Year, new tubist appeared first on Slippedisc.
