David Butt Philip (Photo: Andrew Staples) Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alma Mahler, Wagner, Britten: David Butt Philip, James Baillieu; Wigmore HallReviewed 15 June 2025 In a rare song recital, the dramatic tenor explores a remarkably diverse […]
Message received overnight: Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as SF Symphony Music Director on a transcendent note, conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, & the SF Symphony & Chorus. The […]
The violinist and Edinburgh Festival chief will present a six-part Froday-night series on the commercial station this summer. Titled ‘The Truth About Classical Music with Nicola Benedetti’, it echoes the festival’s theme, ‘The Truth We […]
The troubled opera house, inaugurated in 1989 as a model of modernity, is scheduled to shut for three years from 2030 because it is falling apart. The stage is on the verge of collapse. The […]
There appear to be a new release of a 2021 documentary about an orchestra of Israelis and Palestinians in which all the instruments have been retrieved from dumps or are broken almost beyond repair. The […]
Despite a strike by an Iranian missile on Israel’s premier scientific research centre, students and professors are making the most of what’s left. This is the most Israeli thing I’ve seen. Taken at the Weizmann […]
The much-loved Portuguese pianist, who suffered a small stroke last week, has posted this message (with picture): Dear friends, I regret to inform you that I will have to step away from the stage for […]
Under the title of Dream Differently, Manchester International Festival is taking over Aviva Studios and spreading across the city from 3 to 20 July 2025 with a wide selection of boundary pushing art and culture. Director and […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "The opening work of the Aldeburgh Festival’s 76th edition fell to Colin Matthews’ A Visit to Friends, the composer’s first foray into opera.")
Colin Matthews: A Visit to Friends – Lotte Betts-Dean, Marcus Farnsworth – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Colin Matthews: A Visit to Friends; Lotte Betts-Dean, Susanna Hurrell, Marcus Farnsworth, Edward Hawkins, Gary Matthewman, director […]
The violinist Lisa Batiashvili has reported the death in action of the Ukrainian actor Yurii Felipenko. Every day another world extinguished. The post Another artist is killed by Putin’s forces appeared first on Slippedisc.
