classical music

The Telegraph has a fine obituaty of the National Youth Music Theatre director, who died of cancer in November at the age of 67. The National Youth Music Theatre, which counts among its alumni Idris […]

The co-founder of Belgium’s Crescendo magazine, Michelle Debra, has died at 73. She presided over the magazine’s transition from print to full-digital. The post Music magazine founder, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.

Following two excoriating articles in the UK press ahead of two concerts with the Venezuela regime’s propaganda orchestra, the conductor has been advised to respond on social media. Here’s what he says: Todo lo que […]

The former London Symphony Orchestra chorus chap who rose to fame on the BBC teaching army wives to sing has inked a Friday-night deal with Classic FM: Gareth says: ‘I’m delighted to be joining Classic […]

First, Opera North pulled back before Christmas from a proposed merger with struggling Northern Ballet which could have pulled both companies down. Now, Northern Ballet has made an offer to its musicians that they say […]

The cutting-edge Birmingham Conntemporary Music Group is giving a concert in Birmingham Town Hall with vocalist Basil Gabbidon, marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of reggae legend Bob Marley. The artistic justification? BCMG director […]

In 2017 https://slippedisc.com/2017/06/exclusive-opera-critic-is-hit-with10000-euro-libel-fine/ that the Romanian critic Alexandru Patrascu, a contributor to the London-based Opera magazine, lost a libel case brought against him by the conductor Tiberiu-Ionuț Soare, ex-head of Bucharest National Opera, and the […]

The autograph manuscript of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s string quartet in B flat major, Opus 130, has been acquired by the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. It has been rpivately owned and inaccessible for decades. The […]