The violist Ori Kam has stepped down from the Jerusalem Quartet after 15 years. He says: ‘The past few years have been challenging for me and the quartet’. He speaks also of ‘new professional opportunities.’ […]
The company has announced a triple change at the top. The new music director Andrea Battistoni has jobs all over the world and will have little attention to devote to deep-seated woes. The new board […]
An industry PR has warned in the Wall Street Journal that new regulations jeopardise the singular source of new piano boards. … The specialized wood they use for the soundboards comes from the Tongass National […]
There’s a pair of last-minute changes in Bayreuth’s Meistersinger tonight. Conductor Daniele Gatti is replaced by Axel Kober. Hans Sachs will be sung by Michael Volle, jumping in for the still-unwell Georg Zeppenfeld. What goes […]
The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
Two torrential downpours cost the Austrian laketop festival half a million dollars in ticket refunds. They’ve done the sums and started dismantling the Freischütz set ahead of schedule. Bit of a washout. Read here. The […]
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Bekhzod Davronov, Thomas Lehmann, Kate Lindsey – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Donizetti: Maria Stuarda; Lisette Oropesa, Kate Lindsey, Bekhzod Davronov, director: Ulrich Rasche, Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Salzburg Festival […]
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll – Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’; Lang Lang, West-Eastern […]
They’re still doing it on Apple Classical this week. Here’s the global top ten, exclusive to slippedisc.com: 1 Sleep Max Richter 2 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf […]
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra which got caught in a hapless Gaza uproar and sacked its entire board is trying to repair the damage with these images under new CEO Richard Wigley. He says: ‘This brand […]
