The Observer music critic Fiona Maddocks rates Death in Venice as her signature opera experience of the year. Read her full rankings here.
There is stgill time to add your top 3 to the Slippedisc top picks of the year, here.
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The verdict is just in from the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, held over ten days at the Helsinki Music Centre. The winners are: 1st Prize €30,000: Sueye Park 2nd Prize €20,000: Minami Yoshida (Japan) 3rd […]
I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]
The Dutch website pointer has published anonymous complaints of verbal abuse by the Dutch international conductor Jaap van Zweden. The full report will go online later today. Van Zweden is former music director of the […]
