There are days when only Elgar will do
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no […]
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Violinist, 18, is killed by hit-and-run driver
The young Turkish violinist Laçin Akyol, a music student in Switzerland, has been killed by a speeding car while visiting home in Mersin. The driver has been placed under house arrest. Laçin, whose parents are […]
Speaking Soundly: Sometimes you have a really rough night
David Krauss’s guest this week on Speaking Soundly is jazz singer and Macarthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, who comes out as a Puccini obssessive. She says: ‘I wonder what it would be like to be […]
The New Voices Singing Competition returns to the Northern Aldborough Festival in North Yorkshire for its third edition this year
2024 New Voices Singing Competition: judging panel – Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred, Robert Ogden, Edward Gardner OBE, Sholto Kynoch, Judith le Breuilly, George Ireland, Sir John Tomlinson; winners – Clara Orif and Jack Redman The New Voices […]
To create modern culture through the thoughts of the past: George Petrou artistic director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival introduces this year’s festival
Atsushi Sakai (viola da gamba) and Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo) at PS.Halle, Einbeck for the 2024 Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen This year’s Göttingen International Handel Festival takes place from 16 to 25 May 2025, once more […]
Top string quartet sets out on final tour
Although nothing has shown up on their website, promoters of the current US tour of the Hagen Quartet have proclaimed it as their last. The Austrian quartet, comprising twp brothers and two sisters (one of […]
Two Russian musicians are jailed for anti-Putin activities
The saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, who is registered disabled, has been sentenced to six years in prison for posting anti-war messages nd taking part in demontstrations. Shabanov (pictured) has psoriatic arthritis, an autoimmune disease that will […]
Anti-Putin musician falls from 10th floor window
It is reported that the well-known St Petersburg musician Vadim Stroykin fell from the window of his 10th floor apartment ‘while being visited by the security services’. Kremlin-lined social media sites said he ‘went into […]
A misbegotten evening at the Royal Opera House
The Alastair Macaulay review: Phaedra/ Minotaur, 07.02.2025 Now that the Royal Opera House has been rebranded as Royal Ballet and Opera, it could use a few productions that combine the two art forms. Unfortunately, its […]
Introducing: The Alastair Macaulay review
Every weekend from now, Slippedisc will publish a review by Alastair Macaulay, one of the most respected active critics of the lively arts. Alastair was chief dance critic of the New York Times for 12 […]
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