A group calling itself ‘Jewish Artists for Palestine’ caused a ten-minute break in last night’s Melbourne Symphony concert at the BBC Proms. The group issued a claim to the effect that they had targeted the […]
The city of Kiel has announced that its music director, Gabriel Feltz, died unexpectedly on Friday at Essen University Hospital. Feltz, who was also music director of the Belgrade Philharmonic, was 55. No cause of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Sitting in the dental hygienist’s chair, my ears slathered with Classic FM, I cried out for something like this richly varied album where one composer was born in […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni – Ensemble OrQuesta at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre (Photo: Julian Guidera) Mozart: Don Giovanni; Marcio da Silva, Flavio Lauria, Helen May, Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Anna-Luise Wagner, John Twitchen, director: Marcio da Silva, Hastings […]
Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation “ “Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its […]
New York City Ballet Click here to watch Here are two masterpieces choreographed by George Balanchine for his beloved New York City Ballet, Serenade and Square Dance. They were recorded during the company’s European […]
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One of his rarer beauties for female chorus. The post Time for Brahms? appeared first on Slippedisc.
Friends of Rodion Shchedrin, who died last night, are sharing reminiscences online: Pianist Denis Matsuev: Ten years have passed since the muse Rodion Konstantinovich, the great Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya passed away. And today her husband […]
%20Craig%20Fuller.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Sonic & dramatic splendour: Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo & a strong cast demonstrate the richness to be found in Handel's Saul to open the London Handel Festival")
