Just in: Yuja cancels Dude and NY Phil
Message from Lincoln Center – no other soloist would do? We are writing to inform you of a change to your upcoming NY Phil performance: pianist Yuja Wang has withdrawn due to health issues. Ravel’s […]
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German director, RIP
The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81. He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark […]
Paris ensemble gets German boss
The Ensemble Intercontemporain is to be run by a German broadcasting executive called Patrick Hahn (not to be confused with the young Austrian conductor of the same name). Hahn has programmed a “Musik der Zeit” […]
Top trumpet is beaten up by unhappy student, 14
Italian state radio reports that the renowned trumpet player Sergio Orlandi, 60, has been attacked and beaten as he approached his car by a 14 year-old student he had excluded from his class. The incident […]
Sydney mourns defining concertmaster
The Australian violinist Donald Hazelwood died this weekend, a few days after turning 95. He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a second violinist in 1952, rising to co-concertmaster in 1965 and leading the orchestra […]
Houston reinstates accused principal horn
We understand that William VerMeulen resumed his place in the Houston Symphony at Friday night’s concert after a leave of absence in which he was accused of numerous acts of sexual misconduct at Rice University, […]
Where Yuja f*cks up
From a masterclass with the superpianist: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luther Ong | Aspiring Concert Pianist and Conductor (@luther.ong_music) The post Where Yuja f*cks up appeared first on Slippedisc.
A dip into festival history with the return of Thomas’ Hamlet, Mozart in lighter mode, four new operas, the new Buxton Festival Orchestra: Buxton International Festival 2025
Buxton Opera House festival time. Credit Buxton International Festival Having launched in 1979 with a production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in a version, rare at the time, that undid traditional cuts and transposition, the Buxton […]
The disc is worth getting for the Liszt; throw in the Holmès and de Grandval and you have a winner – le vase brisé from Thomas Elwin & Lana Bode
le vase brisé: Hahn, Augusta Holmès, Liszt, Duparc, Lili Boulanger, Sir Paulo Tosti, Clemence de Grandval, Pauline Viardot, Bellini; Thomas Elwin, Lana Bode; VOCES8 RecordsReviewed 26 February 2025 A debut recital that combines an imaginative […]
Has the sound changed in Notre-Dame since the fire?
Since the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris reopened last November, there have been multiple reports of subtle changes in its acoustic. The impression is not necessarily negative. One of the acousticians believe they may […]
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