We’re sitting here enraptured by music of the Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova, championed by the Halle orchestra. Tabakova, 44, pursues her own pathways in tonal harmony, impervious to fashions and musical politics. Listen. The post […]

New Zealand Opera’s general director, Brad Cohen, has devised a way to send simultaneous texts to braille-reading machines for audience members who have trouble reading the surtitles above the stage. A small step, but life […]

Some curious expressions in a newly uploaded Bartok concertto featuring the winner of the German National award. The post Bartok gets the Levit treatment appeared first on Slippedisc.

Hilary Hahn is unwell: ‘I’m saddened to report that I’m not yet well enough to travel, so my recital in Chicago is postponed until further notice.’ She is due in Brazil at the end of […]

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder promised today in Cabinet that ‘the goal (of a new hall) will be successful by 2036.’ Cost projections, he said, have been halved – from one billion Euros to just […]

The suspended Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Anne Dyer, is facing a Clergy Disciplinary Tribunal in Edinburgh for behaviour unbecoming of a cleric and likely to bring the church into disrepute. Among the allegations to […]

Board member Roger Sant has pledged $10 million to the National Symphony Orchestra, its largest-ever individual gift. It brings Sant’s total lifetime giving to more than $35 million. Part of this funds the naming of […]

Last month Covent Garden changed its brand to Royal Ballet and Opera. Today it announced Rolex as ‘principal partner’, whatever that might mean. Rolex makes watches exclusively for the super-rich. If that’s the image Covent […]

Message from Mischa: As some of you might have heard, I recently suffered a severe infection of the spinal cord, leaving me almost paralysed. A week ago I underwent successful surgery, and now must go […]

We hear that a new rector at Notre Dame de Paris has dismissed two organists and replaced them with an underqualified young man. A petition to rectify the situation is being signed by many of […]