Martin James Bartlett World Piano Day is celebrated on the 88th day of the year to honour the 88 keys of the piano, so Saffron Hall is planning a celebratory Piano Day on Saturday 29 March […]
Fantasy, Myths and Legends prom – Ellie Slorach, Royal Northern Sinfonia – The Glasshouse (Photo: TyneSight Photographic Services)) Ellie Slorach has been appointed to the new role of Associate Conductor with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, […]
There’s a new Peter Danish play opening off Broadway in mid-March about an imagined last meeting between Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna. We’ve had a sneak peek at […]
Benda: Medea – Alexandra Lowe, The Mozartists, Ian Page at Cadogan Hall (Photo: Martin Kendrick) 1775 – A Retrospective: Ordonez, Hasse, Mozart, Benda: Medea, Haydn: Symphony No. 67; Alexandra Lowe, Alessandro Fisher, The Mozartists, Ian […]
The city of Aachen woke up this morning to discovber that its general music director is leavin g. Christopher Ward, whose contract expires this year, has turned down a renewal and is on his way […]
Word from the West Coast: Important Concert Update: Due to illness, both Michael Tilson Thomas and Yuja Wang must cancel their appearances on February 1 with the LA Phil. OK, that’s unfortunate, these tbhings happen. […]
Toshio Hosokawa’s music recalls the calligraphic lines of Japanese script, but, as he puts it, ‘at the limit of time and space’. Hosokawa reframes the very way we experience the guitar; traditional folk music retains […]
The Sicilian conductor Francesco Angelico makes his debut at the Opéra de Montpellier with an exceptional operatic programme focused entirely on Italian repertoire. This is streamed for Slippedisc readers courtesy of OperaVision. A connoisseur of […]
Janine Jansen & Friends Here’s a stunning live performance of Schubert’s Octet in F Maj D.803, from violinist Janine Jansen and her friends at the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival. It’s so good, I watched […]
The Sixties singer and Mick Jagger girlfriend died today in London aged 78. Austrian-Jewish on her mother’s side, Marianne grew up in the north of England in considerable poverty. Starting out as a folk singer, […]
