New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

US violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (centre among the finalists) has won this year’s George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 3rd concerto. Second was South Korea’s Hyeonjeong Lee, aged 13. Japan’s […]

We’re hearing of mass sackings at the declining label. People we’ve tried to contact are no longer there. Among them is the boxed-set reissue specialist Robert Russ at the company’s headquarters in Berlin. Our mole […]

For the first time, Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision streams the finals of the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition. From an initial field of over 200 young singers from 40 countries, the finalists gather in […]