The quiet Czech you need to hear
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Viktor Kalabis is not easy to classify. His music owes something to Janacek and Martinu but without the insistent rhythms or the indelible melodies. He is a discreet […]
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Russia detains pro-Navanly violinist
Russian media are reporting that the virtuoso violinist Asya Sorshneva has been placed under house arrest in the town of Vladimir. She has been charged with ‘financing extremist activities’ after making several donations to the […]
Violin professor is bailed on Canada sex charge
A professor at the University of Manitoba, Oleg Pokhanovski, has been charged in Winnipeg with sexual assault on a teenaged private pupil. The alleged incidents took place between 2007 and 2010. Pokhanovski, 55, reported voluntarily […]
Going where no other company has dared: Green Opera gives the stage premiere of Joubert’s Jane Eyre in a full-blooded performance at Grimeborn Festival
Joubert: Jane Eyre – Laura Mekhail (Jane) – Green Opera at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre – (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) John Joubert: Jane Eyre; Laura Mekhail, Hector Bloggs, Lawrence Thackeray, Alexander Semple, director Eleanor Burke, conductor […]
New challenge and new repertoire: trumpeter Matilda Lloyd her new disc, Fantasia, pairing four contemporary pieces with Baroque music
Matilda Lloyd (Photo: Geoffroy Schied) When I met up for coffee with Matilda Lloyd last month, she was laden down with five trumpets, ranging from a piccolo trumpet to a flugelhorn, all of which come […]
Les Éléments
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Air Anonymous O che […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Arts of the Ancient Americas – Exhibition Tour
Here’s a tour of the new exhibition at the Met, Arts of the Ancient Americas. These artworks reveal histories of the exchange of materials and ideas across vast distances and millennia and provide a deeper […]
Martha and the brothers
Hot vid from last week at the Verbier Festival: The post Martha and the brothers appeared first on Slippedisc.
Playing both parts of Don Juan
Violinist Oleg Pokhanovski of the University of Manitoba accompanies himself on piano in Richard Strauss’s suite. He says: When you watch this performance of Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, you witness more than a technical feat; […]
Keeping up with Alisa
Our recent guest on the BBC Lebrecht Interview has been strutting her stuff with the Czech Philharmonic: The post Keeping up with Alisa appeared first on Slippedisc.
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