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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are looking for neglected stocks in these shaky times, you could do worse than sink a pair of ears into the music of Paul Ben-Haim. It […]

Metamorphosen, for strings alone, contemplates the world after the end of his world, in 1945. The post 80 years ago: Richard Strauss surveys his country’s ruin appeared first on Slippedisc.

Martin Hébert is stepping down after 19 years as Principal Oboe of the Oregon Symphony. His replacement will be Harrison Linsey of the National Symphony Orchestra. Not a bad time for a musician to be […]

Anna Starushkevych is a Ukrainian-British opera singer who has lost family members in the Russian attack on her country. She tells us: ‘I made a conscious choice to put my career on hold, as my […]

Josephine Baker, who died 50 years ago this Saturday 12th April 1975, was much more than the ‘girl in the banana skirt’. That skirt, and the performer wearing it, became a symbol of the Jazz […]

Putting San Francisco far behind him, the Finn is plunging into Nietzsche and Strauss on the Hamburg docks. The post Esa-Pekka Salonen gets out beyond the Bay appeared first on Slippedisc.

From CTV News: The conductor of the Université de Sherbrooke orchestra has been charged with sexual offences involving a minor. François Bernier, 51, was arrested Thursday morning by Sherbrooke police. Court records show that he […]

The buildings that house the Rachmaninoff Museum and its refular concerts on Bolshaya Ordynka have been reclaimed by the city authorities after the museum’s lease expired. The collection, founded by pianist Viktor Merzhanov, is now […]

From our resident critic: English National Ballet’s Forsythe Programme by Alastair Macaulay You think you know me? No, you don’t. With many artists this elusiveness is the instinct that impels much of their careers. And […]

We think their AI’s gone a bit wrong. Especially the hair. And the Reds scarf. Actually hard to find anything that’s right. Except the coffee machine. The post Recognise this action man in Munich? appeared […]