The naked string quartet: a history
We have been chatting to Shasta Ellenbogen, a Canadian violist who founded a naked string quartet in Berlin, intermittently the talk of the town. They are serious musicians whose next dates are 23 and 30 […]
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Where’s Boulez? On Naxos
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS) ***/** It’s a mark of how far Naxos have come under new ownership that a label which once churned out the complete […]
August? That’s the best of the Proms
From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]
Suor Angelica and a Woman who Casts no Shadow: Proms 2025 continues its record of excellence
It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these […]
Ravishing delight: Rebecca Meltzer tells the story of Handel’s Semele with engaging clarity at Waterperry Opera with Hilary Cronin & Michael Lafferty
Handel: Semele – Hilary Cronin & ensemble – Waterperry Opera Festival (Photo: Jennifer Hawthorn) Handel: Semele; Hilary Cronin, Michael Lafferty, Sophie Goldrrick, Nathan Mercieca, Sarah Winn, director: Rebecca Meltzer, conductor: Bertie Baigent, Waterperry Opera Festival; […]
What it’s like to be chief conductor of an orchestra in Ukraine
Anna Starushkevych’s fascinating newsletter has produced a bulletin from Maestro Roman Dzundza of the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic, ‘a mosaic of the cultural existence of a Ukrainian symphony orchestra’: The obvious challenges start with the orchestra’s budget […]
A hero’s life – from Ukraine
The Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra play Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben – in defiance of constant Russian threats. The post A hero’s life – from Ukraine appeared first on Slippedisc.
BBC Proms: A performance to treasure as Fabio Luisi & the Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrate their centenary with Beethoven, Bent Sørensen & Anna Clyne
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi – BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Bent Sørensen: Evening Land, Anna Clyne: The Years, Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’; Clara Cecilie Thomsen, […]
Kirill Petrenko nets Danish million
The Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2026, worth a million Danish crowns (about £120k). He will be required to conduct the DR Symphony Orchestra at a gala concert next […]
Death of an LSO icon, 90
The London Symphony has informed us that Kurt Hans Goedicke passed away yesterday morning as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. He was LSO Principal Timpani from 1964 to 2000. Goedicke was a […]
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