The long-discordant church of St Thomas Fifth Avenue has named a successor to Jeremy Filsell, who was sacrificed in the lastest upheavals three months ago. The next music director is to be Richard Tanner, director […]
Three years ago, we published a photo of Pope Francis nipping out of a record store in Rome. The Vatican posted a hasty press release, saying he had just blessed the shop after renovation. But […]
Colleagues are mourning the Georgian composer Marianna Tscharkwiani, who lived for a while in Vienna and has died after a prolonged struggle with cancer. Originally immersed in Stockhausen and electronic music, she became a compelling […]
The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music has announced the death of the violist Gad Levertov, long-serving head of its strings department. He was also a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Sol La Re […]
Autograph of the first page of the Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach: St John Passion (1739 version); Patrick Grahl, Rachel Redmond, Jess Dandy, Ashley Riches, Morgan Pearse, the English Concert, Francesco Corti; Wigmore HallReviewed […]
I didn’t have this on my bingo card for a potential disc of the year, but here we are. Here’s a promo video: And, for all Renud Capuçon’s star status, it is Daniel Harding whose […]
From Daria van den Bercken: 18 Apr 2025 A running event during a classical piano concert. Is it possible? Yes! On the final day of the Piano Biennale Festival in the Netherlands, we held Running […]
Thielemann and the Bavarians, newly uploaded. Doesn’t get much better. The post Bruckner for Easter Sunday appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Czech Phil with its principal guest conductor gets grooving with the firt set of Dvorak Slavonic Dances. We ran the second set a few weeks back. The post The principal guest dances appeared first […]
I received a review copy of this CD in the mail and thought I’d just sample it real quick to see if it was something I would enjoy enough to write about. And I soon […]
