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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 […]

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.

The most listened-to item on Apple Classical this past week has been an album of serenades on Deutsche Grammophon by the French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, played on 19th century instruments. Raphaël Feuillâtre, 28, was born […]

The Australian compilation brand Eloquence has come up with a set of recordings acknowledging the life’s work of Otto Gerdes, best known as Herbert von Karajan’s main producer on Deutsche Grammophon. Gerdes was also a […]

The funeral took place today of Wlodzimierz Siedlik, director of the Polish Radio Choir in Kraków and of the Kraków Academic Choir of the Jagiellonian University. He was head of the Paderewski Centre and professor […]

The death has been made known of José de Felipe, founder and conductor of important elements in Madrid’s  concert life. Educated in Moscow, where his parent were exiled during the Franco regime, founded the Children’s […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My professor earned commissions from my instrument purchase and the shop lied about its value.  Advice? Dear Advice?, It’s not an uncommon thing to have a teacher earn […]

The judges of six conductor finalists at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra International Conducting Competition could not agree on which was the best, so they chose two. Yet another ludicrous conclusion. There are situations in life […]

You may recall the horrendous and unprovoked knife attack suffered by the Ecuadorian conductor Dante Anzolini almost two years ago in the Bronx. Dante has yet to recover fully from the assault. He tells us: […]

At the start of this year, the associate concertmaster of the Concertgebouw orchestra Tjeerd Top caused a storm in the dykes by moving to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as concertmaster. Old rivalries revived, rude words […]