The US period instrument specialist Robert Levin has an interesting theory for Mozart’s ceaseless output of new piano concertos. He tells Richard Fairman of the FT: ‘I imagine Mozart as being restlessly creative, with a […]
Slippediscers in the Netherlands have spotted that the Rotterdam Philharmonic has replaced Prokofiev’s popular openerin this week’s concerts with Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un soir triste’. The programme is being played both at home and across the […]
Not Schubert’s best tune, perhaps, but one known to a significant proportion of the human race – with the exception of the bots employed by Youtube. The Google-owned video site has blocked a Samsung washing-maching […]
The state theatre in Schwerin, northeast Germany, is staging Paul Hindemith’s short opera Sancta, which few living people have ever seen. In order to hit the headlines, director Florentina Holzinger has inserted a scene of […]
Buffet Crampon, makers of Boehm clarinets and much else, has acquired the percussion instrument makers Bergerault. BC also owns Rigoutat, Powell Flutes and multiple other brands. The post French instrument makers complete takeover appeared first […]
Posted by Lisa Batiashvili, following the incident at the Brussels Queen Elisabeth Competition: Congratulations to Dmitro Udovychenko on winning the first prize of 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition! If the European society accepts the attitude of […]
The broadcaster YLE reports that Finnish National Opera has terminated its contract with the conductor Jonas Rannila, following claims of ‘inappropriate’ behaviour towards youg men. He denies the claims. Rannila, 35, has also been suspended […]
The Labour Party’s shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire has promised, in a tweet, to change the long-failing funding body for arts in England. Here’s what she says: Arts Council England has been given broad priorities […]
The French violinist Renaud Capucon carried the Olympic torch at Niort yesterday on its latest leg towards Paris. The post Violinist carries torch appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Rhode Island Philharmonic has named Ruth Reinhardt as its next music director. Originally from Saarbrücken, the daughter of two medical doctors, she studied with Alan Gilbert at Juilliard and won an assistantship at the […]
