classical music

Richard Williams was at her London debut in 1972: I sat with my friend Charlie Gillett and we were both overjoyed to discover that her band included Richard Tee on keyboards, the guitarist Eric Gale […]

It will need more than a European peacekeeping force to resolve the futures of artists who have been banned from the world stage over their support for Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression. They fall into […]

For the past two weeks, staff pianists at the national conservatoires of Paris (pic) and Lyon have been on strike. They are demanding the removal of a 1,650-Euro cap on their monthly wages. Other professors […]

The world of period instruments is in grief at the death of Ricardo Kanji, an outstanding recorder and flute player who also conducted. He was a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and […]

The US conductor has shared this sobering news of a health reverse and a career decision: Dear Friends, Three years ago I wrote to tell you that I’m battling Glioblastoma. The three and a half […]

Ther epochal singer and classical pianist Robert Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She gave up singing two years ago with the onset of Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She won a Grammy Record of […]

Stephen Hough has rearranged Pretty Lady. Love the harmonies. The post Sondheim, piano solo appeared first on Slippedisc.

The orchestra world has known for a while that the Baltimore Symphony is seething with unresolved conflict. The matter started when the concertmaster Jonathan Carney allegedly made a sexual advance to the principal oboist Katharine […]

The orchestra world has known for a while that the Baltimore Symphony is seething with unresolved conflict. The matter started when the concertmaster Jonathan Carney allegedly made a sexual advance to the principal oboist Katharine […]

In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]