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This is Deutsche Grammophon promo for her forthcoming Shostakovich album. It must be shorter than the last one.   The post Yuja’s cutting it short appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Czech composer is known chiefly as a prophet of microtonality. So how do you play him on a piano, with only whole abd half tones? Here’s how. Sounds a bit honky-tonk. The record is […]

For the first time since it foundation in 1808, the Prague Conservatory is to be run by a woman. Dr. Veronika Höslová came top out of 14 candidates to be named director. She succeeds, among […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are looking for neglected stocks in these shaky times, you could do worse than sink a pair of ears into the music of Paul Ben-Haim. It […]

Metamorphosen, for strings alone, contemplates the world after the end of his world, in 1945. The post 80 years ago: Richard Strauss surveys his country’s ruin appeared first on Slippedisc.

Martin Hébert is stepping down after 19 years as Principal Oboe of the Oregon Symphony. His replacement will be Harrison Linsey of the National Symphony Orchestra. Not a bad time for a musician to be […]

Anna Starushkevych is a Ukrainian-British opera singer who has lost family members in the Russian attack on her country. She tells us: ‘I made a conscious choice to put my career on hold, as my […]

Josephine Baker, who died 50 years ago this Saturday 12th April 1975, was much more than the ‘girl in the banana skirt’. That skirt, and the performer wearing it, became a symbol of the Jazz […]

Putting San Francisco far behind him, the Finn is plunging into Nietzsche and Strauss on the Hamburg docks. The post Esa-Pekka Salonen gets out beyond the Bay appeared first on Slippedisc.