From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]
It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these […]
Handel: Semele – Hilary Cronin & ensemble – Waterperry Opera Festival (Photo: Jennifer Hawthorn) Handel: Semele; Hilary Cronin, Michael Lafferty, Sophie Goldrrick, Nathan Mercieca, Sarah Winn, director: Rebecca Meltzer, conductor: Bertie Baigent, Waterperry Opera Festival; […]
Anna Starushkevych’s fascinating newsletter has produced a bulletin from Maestro Roman Dzundza of the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic, ‘a mosaic of the cultural existence of a Ukrainian symphony orchestra’: The obvious challenges start with the orchestra’s budget […]
The Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra play Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben – in defiance of constant Russian threats. The post A hero’s life – from Ukraine appeared first on Slippedisc.
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi – BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Bent Sørensen: Evening Land, Anna Clyne: The Years, Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’; Clara Cecilie Thomsen, […]
The Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2026, worth a million Danish crowns (about £120k). He will be required to conduct the DR Symphony Orchestra at a gala concert next […]
The London Symphony has informed us that Kurt Hans Goedicke passed away yesterday morning as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. He was LSO Principal Timpani from 1964 to 2000. Goedicke was a […]
PROMS Striggio & others Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.08.2025 Striggio Mass, ‘Ecco sì beato giono’, preceded and interspersd with works by Benevolo, Coreccia, Massenzio & Palestrina. Motet, Ecce beatem […]
The Utah conductor Robert Baldwin – music director of Salt Lake Symphony and Professor of Music at University of Utah – has issued an appeal for the release of his former concertmaster John Shin, who […]
