Karajan prize for two Russians
The Herbert von Karajan Prize, founbded in 2017 by his widow Eliette, is to be awarded today to the soprano Nadezhda Karyazina, making her debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival, and to Maxim Emelyanychev who […]
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German Conservatoire mourns a Korean student
Message from the Musikhochschule Münster in western Germany: Musikhochschule Münstermourns YeJi Lee Our student YeJi Lee aka Celine passed away in April. She was a victim of a tragic accident in her home country of […]
Youthful impulse and power: Mozart’s Requiem from National Youth Choir, Sinfonia Smith Square and Nicholas Chalmers
The first page of Mozart’s autograph score of the Requiem Mozart: Symphony No. 35, Requiem, Bruckner, Rheinberger; Hannah Dienes-Williams, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Hugo Brady, Peter Edge, National Youth Choir (18-25 Years), Sinfonia Smith Square, Nicholas Chalmers; […]
Looking at these modern classics anew: Britten’s Canticles at the Barbican with James Way, Natalie Burch & friends
Natalie Burch, James Way and Annemarie Federle at St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington where their recording of Britten’s Canticles was made (Photo: Will Coates-Gibson/Foxbrush) Britten: Five Canticles; Errollyn Wallen; My Lazy Goodheart, Schubert: Auf dem Strom, […]
Fed up with Steinway? Here’s another way
Patrick Drijver has made a film about collectors trying to buy a fortepiano made by Beethoven’s bet friend, Nanette Streicher. It’s full of illuminations. Contributions by by: Alexander Melnikov, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andreas Staier, Robert Levin, […]
The other St John Passion
By Alessandro Scarlatti. A Belgian performance of the Neapolitan work. The post The other St John Passion appeared first on Slippedisc.
MAESTRA: Piano Concertos by Julia Perry and Doreen Carwithen
Samantha Ege features here in works by Julia Perry and Doreen Carwithen: a stimulating pairing. The name of Julia Perry was new to me. This fascinating composer was born in Kentucky, USA, moved to Ohio, […]
How the Metropolitan Opera decolonised Aida
The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]
Death of a noted US maestro
The death has been published today of Adrian Gnam, George Szell’s principal oboe at the Cleveland Orchestra and later music director of the Macon Symphony Orchestra in Georgia for 27 years. Her served for eight […]
Rattle’s orchestra blasts newspaper for lack of reviews
The manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Pont, has circulated an open letter to colleagues, lashing out at the Süddeutsche Zeitung for minimising reviews of the orchestra. ‘I heard at the end of […]
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