There is a week celebrating the viola at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, as it hosts the Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions from 19 to 26 January 2025. Named for two great English violists, […]
This is a live recording of the 2023 Christmas concert in Leuven (it’s an annual event). These concerts present Austrian music (Leuven lies between Vienna and Salzburg) composed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The […]
Based on author Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin had its world premiere in 1879. The opera was ground breaking for its time: instead of focusing on fast-paced, dramatic events, Eugene Onegin describes the inner worlds of […]
The Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, newly appointed principal guest conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, has dedicated her forst concert to the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth, like herself born in the border town of Brody. […]
Flight into Egypt Akili Tommasino, Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Met Museum in New York, artist Julie Mehretu, and artist Fred Wilson, take us on a virtual tour of […]
The Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is to be professor of violin at the Basel Academy of Music from next September. Kavakos, 57, has given masterclasses in various academies but has not held a post before. […]
Hamburg State Opera has chosen Armand Djikoloum to give its tuning ‘A’. Born in France, Armand has given recent recital tours in Scotland and England. The post Hamburg names principal oboe appeared first on Slippedisc.
Orchestra musicians at the Metropolitan Opera in New York have posted this picture of their cello section last night. No men to draw a bow. They’ll be rubbing their eyes in the Vienna Philharmonic. The […]
Some readers have had difficulties over the past couple of days accessing this site, getting a ‘Bad Request’ when they clicked. Our tech team have traced this fault to a rogue line of computer code […]
The yellow label has issued a six-CD box of performances by Long Yu, China’s most powerful conductor. Long Yu is artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic and of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. […]
