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A cracking encore from Frankfurt.   The post Chick this out appeared first on Slippedisc.

Message received: Last weekend brought a special encounter: Víkingur Ólafsson, our Artist-in-Residence this season, met Lahav Shani, who takes on that role in the upcoming season. Together with the Wiener Symphoniker under the baton of […]

A favourite of many Popes, newly online. The post Wake up to Hildegard appeared first on Slippedisc.

“I came to see the roots of my own people’s culture, especially in our music which is still the richest and most healthy in America.” Athlete. Actor. Activist. Ambassador for freedom. Paul Robeson’s voice sang […]

Fascinating programme from John Storgårds with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: BEETHOVEN Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra 0:29 HENRIETTE RENIÉ Concerto for Harp and Orchestra 9:36 KEITH JARRETT Elegy for Violin and String Orchestra 40:52 […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of his overlong second symphony, and have heard it performed live by Daniel Barenboim […]

Erwin Schrott has pulled out as Mephisto in Covent Garden’s upcoming production of Gounod’s Faust. His replacement is a rising Pole, Adam Palka, who has sung leading roles in Vienna, Paris and Milan. His Mephisto […]

After a plea deal that got him out of a possible life sentence Odin Rathnam, former concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony in Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in state prison for repeated […]

In Washington, is no-one safe? Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was fired last night by email after ten years in the job. She was the first woman in the post. The email said: ‘Carla, On […]

Our resident reviewer experiences Claus Guth’s production of the Richard Strauss opera: The new Met Salome and Salomettes by Alastair Macaulay Since the great virtues of the new Metropolitan Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Salome” […]