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Ecuador mourns premier composer, 94
The National Conservatory of Music in Quito has announced the death of (Luis) Gerardo Guevara (Viteri). A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Guevara published more than 100 scores and wrote the defining history of […]
Modern aspects of the Christmas story: Gabriel Jackson’s The Christmas Story and Edward Nesbit’s Nativity
Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story; Choir of Merton College, Oxford, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, Owen Chan & Francois Cloete (organ), Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas (conductor); DELPHIAN Edward Nesbit: Nativity, Wycliffe Carols, […]
Livewire mezzo, RIP
Ars Choralis Coeln has announced the death of its founder, the versatile mezzo-soprano Maria Jonas. A specialist in early, contemporary and improvised music, Maria founded and directed numerous ensembles, often combining early and new music […]
Fiona’s top 10 of 2024
The Observer music critic Fiona Maddocks rates Death in Venice as her signature opera experience of the year. Read her full rankings here. There is stgill time to add your top 3 to the Slippedisc […]
The Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall: Caroline Shaw premiered alongside rare Stradella and Christmas Corelli
Signed handwritten draft of Thomas Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush with original title Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto grosso in F minor Op.1 No.8; Alessandro Stradella: Ah! troppo e ver, Sonata di viole ‘Concerto-concerto grosso’, Caroline Shaw: The Holdfast, Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto […]
The new Lebrecht Interviews: Itzhak, Mirga and the Janacek cyclist
Over the hoplidays this week, BBC Radio 3 is running three new Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in thee music world. Two are notoriously elusive. This is, I am told, the first programme-length interview Itzhak […]
Vintage shot: Telling a conductor what he’s worth
This is the forbidding Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the LA Phil in the 1980s. When he wasn’t looking, someone put the sign up and oboist David Weiss snapped this shot. Leinsdorf was not renowned for having […]
Britain’s busiest classical producer?
Tip a hat to Grammy-nominated Brian Pidgeon who is, we think, the most prolific record producer in the UK. Brian has made around 400 recordings. He was Simon Rattle’s first record producer with the Merseyside […]
Can Gergiev still do Mahler?
Early in his international career, Valery Gergiev professed himself a Mahler enthusiast and conducted the symphonies with great engagement whenever he got the opportunity. For the past three years, as a Putin collaborator, he has […]
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