classical music

We have learned of the sad death of Bjørn Kjellemyr, a Norwegian artist who played with such jazz greats as Terje Rypdal, Joe Henderson, Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Pat Metheny. Bjørn, who was 74, […]

From our critic in residence Alastair Macaulay: One of the great thrills of theatre-going is projection, the projection of the human body and the human voice in space. But which actors now try project their […]

From an interview with La Razon: ‘My opinion is useless and won’t change anything. What counts are the human beings, and above all the children who suffer and die even today, in 2025. We listen […]

The last guest in my current series on BBC Radio 3 is the pianist and composer Gabriela Montero. Exiled from Venezuela and an outspoken opponent of the regime, she has suffered prejudice in parts of […]

A panoply of politicians, writers and not-quite celebrities have written to the Guardian, urging the Royal Opera House to cancel the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, who will sing Tosca next month and Turandot later in […]

The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester has appointed a Romanian, Andra Vornicu, to the new post of professor of pop violin. Must be a market for it. Andra Vornicu lives in Manchester and […]

This is the 100th birthday of one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time – Oscar Peterson. Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born in Montreal on 15th  August  1925 and died in Toronto on 23 […]

When Giuseppe Verdi encountered the drama about the King of the Huns by the German Romantic poet Zacharias Werner, he saw its potential as opera. Although audiences and the press initially welcomed the premiere in […]

The great satirist tells Roy Plomley he has ‘not that wide’ tastes in music. The post Tom Lehrer on Desert Island Discs appeared first on Slippedisc.