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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: He  was a master manipulator of media. One night in Liverpool, he invited leading journalists to a champagne reception at the Adelphi, where he proceeded to unscrew light-bulbs […]

Ilia Papoian, who came third at the last Tchaikovsky Competition, is happy to speak truth to power when he gets the chance: “It is an enormous honor for me to perform before the president in […]

Alastair Macaulay has been out reviewing student productions: Three British choreographers: Ashton, Alston, Wheeldon One theatre critic used to boast that he never reviewed amateurs. I’ll concede that many amateur performances aren’t worth reviewing, but […]

The Greek soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, a protégée of Barbara Hannigan, has been snapped up by AskonasHolt. Worth it, just for this: In other agency news, HarrisonParrott has signed another Korean who’s still at school. Violinist […]

From the Busoni Piano Competition: It is with great regret that we receive the news of the passing of the great Alfred Brendel. Peter Paul Kainrath, artistic director, speaks for everyone at the Busoni-Mahler Foundation […]

Wayne Thiebaud While famous for his paintings of American confections, Wayne Thiebaud’s passionate engagement with art history remains largely overlooked. In this documentary, produced by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco to support their […]

From a review of the tenor’s recital at the Luxembourg Philharmonie: “Tränenahnung” (premonition of tears) sets in. The audience has noticeably stopped breathing to follow the increasingly powerful piano playing of the tenor and his […]

Pope Leo is reputed to be a keen music lover with an eye for talent. Today he has roped in six of the finest finger flyers for his Friday noon recital. The six are Gabriela […]

A report for slippedisc.com by Susan Hall: Yuval Sharon and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) represent the future of opera. Their opening-night production signals a bold new direction for a grand institution long in […]

One of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser, the Moscow pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina died today at the age of 84. Banned for a while by the Soviets, she taught in London at the Royal […]