The Russian-born anti-fascist has been awarded the German National Prize. Levit, 37, takes home 30,000 Euros. The German National Foundation said in Berlin that Levit was an important musician, committed citizen and one of the […]

Romare Bearden/Major Jackson – Met Click here to read/see  Romare Bearden died in 1988. I was lucky enough to meet him once and he kindly signed a poster for me which I still have. By that […]

Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists attempted to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini […]

A trio with Mischa Maisky and Janine Jansen, new on youtube. Beat that. The post Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn appeared first on Slippedisc.

A regular concertgoer reports:   I usually sit on the side circle At Symphony Hall, but was moved up to the higher level by the CBSO because my usual seats were being used by the […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ferdinand Ries and Franz Clement were the musicians closest to Beethoven. Ries, who knew Beethoven from Bonn, acted as his secretary before moving to London where he was […]

Brokeback Mountain – Opera Click here  for tv subscription This is a modern opera adaptation by Charles Wuorinen of Annie Proulx’s short story previously adapted by Ang Lee for the Oscar-winning film. It marks composer […]

Dear Alma, I have been in an orchestra for a short while. It’s an excellent group and I worked hard to achieve this position. The orchestra is not in my home country, and I quite […]

This week’s guest on David Krauss’s Speaking Soundly is the stellar mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who talks about audiences… in front of a live audience. ‘You have to prove yourself every time,’ she says. ‘There is […]

The paper’s cultural reporter learned the hard way that Mistuko Uchida does not play the game any way but hers. A scholarly artist, Uchida was intent on testing my musical knowledge, stopping the interview several […]