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They have just posted a Bruckner piece conducted by Choir Director Jonathan Sells. See for yourselves. The post How the Monteverdi Choir sounds without Gardiner appeared first on Slippedisc.

Prospective students at the Newark School of Violin Making have been told that the present year’s intake will be the last. There will be no new intake to Musical Instrument Crafts for the next two […]

From Joseph Horowitz’s survey of the Met’s present tribulations in the New York Review of Books: Of the Met’s earliest Aida broadcasts, the most esteemed (it is readily available on youtube) was aired on February […]

With Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók broke with tradition and concentrated the drama into a single act lasting barely an hour. In this powerful and unsettling score, each door Judith opens reveals new worlds of sound, sometimes lush […]

The Helsinki Philharmonic chief Jukka-Pekka Saraste has lef his London management Maestro Arts to join Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm of Vienna for worldwide general management. Saraste, 69, has a year to run on his […]

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed the 2011 Tchaikovsky winner Itamar Zorman to be associate professor of violin. No first prize was awarded in 2011. Zorman shared joint second with the Russian Sergei […]

The death was made known today of the eminent and highly sought after composer and conductor Ronald Corp, OBE. He was an ordained priest of the Church of England and served at St Augustine, Kilburn. […]

The following rallying cry has just gone online: Classical musicians, please sign and share! (Thanks to Jonathan Biss, Joyce DiDonato, Midori and Alisa Weilerstein for writing the letter below:) To our fellow citizens: We the […]

The music director has been feeling unnoticed:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Philadelphia Orchestra (@philorch) Philadelphia Orchestra says: Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been following a […]

Just another headline-grabbing blast from the Vivaldi peddler: Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violinist, has said “boring” concert programme notes are ruining classical music. He told The Telegraph that a “plague of experts” were distracting audiences […]