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Fred the Great said: I’ll get Bach to you
The Easter edition of our Alastair Macaulay Review: Charpentier and Louis XIV; Bach and Frederick the Great by Alastair Macaulay The overlaps between history and music are infinite, even though many of us listen (or […]
Dear Alma, My students won’t pay cash
From our resident agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I have ten private students, and I ask the parents to pay in cash. Most do, but there are three who don’t. I send out email reminders […]
Berlin composer, RIP
The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, long based in Berlin, died yesterday at the age of 66. Ablinger founded and led the Ensemble Zwischentöne and was much concerned with turning speech into music. The post Berlin […]
Anja Silja: I have been on stage for 70 years
The soprano, 85 today, made her debut at 15 in Barber of Seville before being groomed by Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. She says: No-one has sung as long as I have, not even […]
Karajan prize for two Russians
The Herbert von Karajan Prize, founbded in 2017 by his widow Eliette, is to be awarded today to the soprano Nadezhda Karyazina, making her debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival, and to Maxim Emelyanychev who […]
German Conservatoire mourns a Korean student
Message from the Musikhochschule Münster in western Germany: Musikhochschule Münstermourns YeJi Lee Our student YeJi Lee aka Celine passed away in April. She was a victim of a tragic accident in her home country of […]
Fed up with Steinway? Here’s another way
Patrick Drijver has made a film about collectors trying to buy a fortepiano made by Beethoven’s bet friend, Nanette Streicher. It’s full of illuminations. Contributions by by: Alexander Melnikov, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andreas Staier, Robert Levin, […]
The other St John Passion
By Alessandro Scarlatti. A Belgian performance of the Neapolitan work. The post The other St John Passion appeared first on Slippedisc.
How the Metropolitan Opera decolonised Aida
The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]
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