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The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music has announced the death of the violist Gad Levertov, long-serving head of its strings department. He was also a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Sol La Re […]

From Daria van den Bercken: 18 Apr 2025 A running event during a classical piano concert. Is it possible? Yes! On the final day of the Piano Biennale Festival in the Netherlands, we held Running […]

Thielemann and the Bavarians, newly uploaded. Doesn’t get much better. The post Bruckner for Easter Sunday appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Czech Phil with its principal guest conductor gets grooving with the firt set of Dvorak Slavonic Dances. We ran the second set a few weeks back. The post The principal guest dances appeared first […]

Message received: A Season To Sing is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s enduringly popular set of violin concertos, The Four Seasons, first published 300 years ago in 1725. RSCM composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is rearranging […]

These days, she confines herself to the first piano concerto. But then the second was written first (see Why Beethoven). The post Martha plays the second Beethoven appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Stonemason’s Yard Think Venice, especially if you have never been there, and chances are that the view that springs to mind will have been painted by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto. He was […]

There were 144 students registered for music at Jacnsonville University, 123 of them majors. But the private college, founded in 1934, has decided to shut down its music and theatre programs with a loss of […]

Message received: WNYC today announced that its “Save New Sounds” campaign to preserve the beloved 40+ year music program has reached its goal of $1.5 million, and the show will go on. The news was […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Like every reviewer I love surprises, and nothing has surprised me more in a month of Easter Sundays than this delicate and brilliant pairing of Japanese and Viennese […]