The composer Joseph Pibbs is working with historian and podcaster Dominic Sandbrook on an opera documenting the decline and fall of the reformist British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Mezzo-soprano Lucy Schauffer will play Mrs T. […]
The BBC’s classical radio station has continued its recovery with a 10% increase year-on-year, today’s Rajar ratings show. Radio 3 reached 1.95m in the last quarter of 2024. A further 150,000 listeners joined its new […]
From the Berlin Phil: It is with great regret that Kirill Petrenko also has to cancel the concerts from 13 to 15 February and the family concert on 16 February. On strict medical advice, he […]
From a press release: Jonas Kaufmann is set to make his highly anticipated Hong Kong debut this February alongside the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. This concert features most beloved arias from some of his signature […]
After Alfvén, Borgstrøm. Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1861-1925) might not be the best-known of Scandic composers, although some of his most important works were performed in his native Norway until the Second World War. Now, with he […]
He didn’t live to be 80 or anything like it. Bob Marley died, aged only 36 , but his musical influence didn’t die with him. He was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist born eighty […]
This is said to be the most viewed classical music video in Bulgaria for several years. It features Victor Vichev playing Chopin. Your thoughts? The post Chopin goes viral in Bulgaria appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Finnish conductor has been appointed music director of the 2026 Ojai Music Festival. He previously filled that role in 1999 and 2001. ‘Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the most inventive, adventurous thinkers of 21st-century […]
Cello students at the University of Münster in Germany have been told that their Brazilian professor, Matias de Oliveira Pinto, was killed last night in a car crash. The details have yet to be disclosed. […]
Musicians in Israel are mourning the death today of Eyal Bat, a prolific choral composer and arranger who wrote for both adults and children. As the seriousness of his illness became known, a tribute concert […]
