classical music

Organised by Polish National Opera, the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition is the biggest singing competition in Poland. Every three years, young artists from around the world gather in Warsaw to present their talents and, […]

Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca was born 127 years ago today, on June 5th, 1898, and he died, violently, on August 19th, 1936, killed by a Fascist firing squad in the early days of the Spanish […]

So what were your plans for the next 20 minutes? The post Saint-Saens alive! It’s cello heaven appeared first on Slippedisc.

Concert of the week by Simon Rattle and the BRSO – Three French composers, eclectic to a fault. The post Stick out the Boulez, stay for Ravel appeared first on Slippedisc.

To conclude their inaugural season this Friday, Music Director Kedrick Armstrong and the Oakland Symphony and Chorus perform Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the Ninth Symphony. The Ninth is paired with Errollyn Wallen’s ode to freedom, […]

Wanda Landowska met Manuel de Falla in Paris in 1910. Sixteen years later, he sent her a concerto for harpsichord and five instruments. Ever heard it? Mahan Esfahani is bringing it back to attention. Get […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There is a line of beauty that runs through French vocal music, from Debussy to Messiaen to Boulez, which exists to the exclusion of all else. When you […]

The death has been made known of Alan Grieve, CBE, founder of the Jerwood Foundation which in 34 years gave away an eight-figure sum to visual and performing arts in the UK. He never bothered […]

From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]

A new Youtube channel, Opus Obscura, has broiught out recording of Elgar’s cello concerto by the late principal cello of the Vienna Philharmonic, Franz Bartolomey. It is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and takes extremely […]