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Alan Gilbert bet the house in Hamburg, performing Gurrelider to open the Elbphilharmonie season. The post Watch: It’s a Schoenberg opening night appeared first on Slippedisc.

The violinist Vineta Sareika, who resigned this week as concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, has been awarded an honorary professorship by the Latvian Academy of Music in her home country. She says: ‘Extremely honored and […]

Ten have got through to tomorrow’s semis: Kai-Min Chang (Taiwan) Xuehong Chen (China) Junyan Chen (China) Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Canada) Elizaveta Kliuchereva (Russia) Khanh Nhi Luong (Vietnam) Callum McLachlan (United Kingdom) Julian Trevelyan (United Kingdom) Tomoharu […]

An extraordinary take on the Purcell ode by Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, recorded in Leningrad in 1959. Beautiful in quite unexpected ways. The post Dido laments in Russian appeared first on Slippedisc.

Begin The Beguine – Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire  I know you know who Fred Astaire was. Everybody does. But it’s possible you may not have come across Eleanor Powell.  She was simply the greatest female […]

press release: In June 2022, the late Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini and his son Daniele, who shared a special love for Schubert, recorded their upcoming album dedicated to three essential aspects of the Viennese composer’s […]

Folks have lately pointed out the merits of Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, which ‘presents world-class music for people of modest incomes in New York City’ (or so it says on the wrapper). The series, founded in […]

Christian Thielemann has told La Scala he has to undergo surgery next month and cannot conduct Das Rheingold, which opens on October 28. Simone Young and Alexander Soddy will step in. Since he misses the […]

Starting with the 1982 best-seller A Feather on the Breath of God, the south London boutique label is bringing back some of its iconic hits on long-playing vinyl, it was rolled out today. Along with […]

The death is being shared of Peabody graduate Eric Maul, a flutist well known among Baltimore musicians and in his adopted city, Boston. No cause of death has yet been made public. Social media are […]