Martin Owen, Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy at the Stoller Hall (Photo; Rob Everett) When horn player Martin Owen and I met to chat about his performances of Mozart’s Horn Concertos with Manchester Camerata, our conversation […]
This is.wonderful disc. Don’t let the “early” bit put you off: there is such joy and sorrow here, such craftsmanship. And the conjoining of Heinichen and Telemann results in the dream team you never knew […]
Anna Starushkevych is a Ukrainian-British opera singer who has lost family members in the Russian attack on her country. She tells us: ‘I made a conscious choice to put my career on hold, as my […]
Josephine Baker, who died 50 years ago this Saturday 12th April 1975, was much more than the ‘girl in the banana skirt’. That skirt, and the performer wearing it, became a symbol of the Jazz […]
Putting San Francisco far behind him, the Finn is plunging into Nietzsche and Strauss on the Hamburg docks. The post Esa-Pekka Salonen gets out beyond the Bay appeared first on Slippedisc.
From CTV News: The conductor of the Université de Sherbrooke orchestra has been charged with sexual offences involving a minor. François Bernier, 51, was arrested Thursday morning by Sherbrooke police. Court records show that he […]
The buildings that house the Rachmaninoff Museum and its refular concerts on Bolshaya Ordynka have been reclaimed by the city authorities after the museum’s lease expired. The collection, founded by pianist Viktor Merzhanov, is now […]
From our resident critic: English National Ballet’s Forsythe Programme by Alastair Macaulay You think you know me? No, you don’t. With many artists this elusiveness is the instinct that impels much of their careers. And […]
We think their AI’s gone a bit wrong. Especially the hair. And the Reds scarf. Actually hard to find anything that’s right. Except the coffee machine. The post Recognise this action man in Munich? appeared […]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced the death of Jehoash Hirschberg, who taught in its department of musicology from 1971. Hirchberg was the biographer of the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim. He also write books […]
