Message from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Musikverein Wien regret to announce that the concerts on 7 and 8 December 2024 with John Williams have to be cancelled. Due to a […]
Bach: St John Passion – Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan at BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Mark Allen) Bach: St John Passion; Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Carolyn Sampson, Alexander Chance, Shimon Yoshida, […]
The world’s most productive conducting teacher celebrated his latest birthday this weekend – with a concert, of course. If you follow through the Instagram chain, you will find ex-pupil Mikko Franck bashing the percussion. View […]
Message received: Sent on behalf of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus We, the members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, are reaching out to our friends and supporters to express our deep, ongoing concern about […]
The picture was taken in Lucerne after the last concert of the West-East Diwan Orchestra. The post Daniel Barenboim, end of tour appeared first on Slippedisc.
STATEMENT FROM THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS’ ASSOCIATION (SOMA) Australia’s professional orchestral musicians stand in solidarity with and in admiration of our colleagues in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. For too long we have witnessed the musicians […]
The orchestra management has issued a brutal demand to Michael Lam, 63, oboist and cor anglais player, to attend a reaudition or be dismissed without pension. The orchestra’s MD, Ofer Amsalem, wrote to him that […]
Not unreasonable, this one. 8. Beethoven pic.twitter.com/RSrOiGbCfK — Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) August 15, 2024 The post Beethoven, reimagined by AI appeared first on Slippedisc.
My Lebrecht Interview with Wasfi Kani presents a woman of colour at war with the old school ties who control British opera. Wasfi is the first to admit she’s not an easy person to get […]
The conductor Susanna Mälkki (pictured, 3rd right) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Arts Helsinki. Who knew the Finns went in for funny hats? Goodness, this one’s worse. The post […]
