The Watchman #5: Live, Love, Die
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 […]
classical music
Ruth Leon recommends… New York City Ballet in Madrid
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 […]
Simon Rattle asks: Why did Brahms in his early 30s write a Requiem?
A seminal moment in music history. The post Simon Rattle asks: Why did Brahms in his early 30s write a Requiem? appeared first on Slippedisc.
Trailing Joyce’s new release
Top track from Dido and Aeneas, out next month on Warner: The post Trailing Joyce’s new release appeared first on Slippedisc.
Time for Brahms?
One of his rarer beauties for female chorus. The post Time for Brahms? appeared first on Slippedisc.
Memories of a great Russian composer
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 […]
Italian soprano will open Met, then take baby leave
Some more happy news. The splendid Italian soprano Federica Lombardi will sing Donna Anna in the Met’s opening run of Don Giovanni from September 24. Then she will withdraw for six months to have her […]
Alastair Macaulay: Two Proms and middle-class angst
From our critic in residence: I. The playwright Mike Bartlett write plays for today in idioms that hanker for the plays of yesterday. His most prestigious play to date has been “King Charles III”, written […]
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The Glyndebourne Prom: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with a young cast on superb form
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Huw Montague Rendall, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Glyndebourne at the BBC Proms (Photo: Chris Christodoulou/ BBC) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Tommaso Barea, Johann Wallroth, Huw […]
Death of Russia’s doyen composer, 92
The Bolshoi has announced the death of Rodion Shchedrin, Russia’s most successful composer of the late and post-Communist eras. Although open to modernist ideas in his composition and teaching, and refusing to join the Communist […]
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