Pulitzer prize to US-Filipina composer
The 2025 prize for music goes to Sky Islands, by Susie Ibarra. Sky Islands is a celebration of biodiversity and sonic innovation Ibarra, 54, is California born, the child of two physicians who migrated to […]
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Berlin Phil picks four new conductors
The orchestra unroilled in new season this morning. Dutch violinist Janine Jansen will be artist in residence. Spanish guru Jordi Savall will teach the Academy and make his debut with the Philharmonic. Four new conductors […]
Chopin is competitive as ever
On the morning that the first candidates started playing in the Reine Elisabeth competition in Brussels, the Chopin Competition chose to announce its candidates for October. Some are apparently dropouts from Brussels. The competition scene […]
Lise Davidsen will take on Isolde next year
The Norwegian soprano, presently on maternity break, will sing her first Isolde in a new production of Wagner’s opera Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in January 2026, it was announced this morning. She is […]
An English woman is Berlin’s new cultural senator
It has been confirmed today by giverning mayor Kai Wegner that Sarah Wedl-Wilson will be the new Senator for Culture, succeeding Joe Chialo, who resigned at the weekend. Wedl-Wilson, 55, originally from Watford, went to […]
Britten Sinfonia, Sinfonia Smith Square and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, unite for a thrilling and exhilarating concert concluding with Olivier Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum – Britten Sinfonia, Sinfonia Smith Square, Nicholas Daniel – St George’s Cathedral, Southwark (Photo: Britten Sinfonia) Stravinsky: Symphonies of wind instruments; Poulenc: Timor et tremor, Vinea mea electa, Tristis est […]
Just in: Apple chart is topped by influencer
It comes as something of a surprise to find the Frenhc violinist Esther Abrami at #1 on this week’s Apple Classical streaming chart, published exclusively on slippedisc. Abrami’s name does not appear much on the […]
Watch: The Berlin Philharmonic Europa concert
The orchestra has spent the weekend at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, southern Italy. Riccardo Muti conducted Rossini’s William Tell Overture and Verdi’s Vespri Sicialiani, followed by Brahms’ Second Symphony. Just like olden times. […]
San Francisco Symphony squabble gets down and dirty
You might think that having Esa-Pekka Salonen quitting as music director would have mitigated the SFSO’s appetite for public conflict. Not a bit of it. Last week the musicians distributed leaflets before a concert honouring […]
Just in: Maestro quits Monte
Top news this morning on the French Riviera: Kazuki Yamada, Artistic and Musical Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, has recently informed the Conseil d’Administration, chaired by HRH the Princess of Hanover, of his […]
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