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The Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy, has been won by Yifan Wu, from China. He also won the audience prize. The post Shanghai lad, 19, wins Premio Busoni appeared first on Slippedisc.

The widely admired Christoph Nel died on Monday, aged 80. Working mostly in Frankfurt, he also directed in Stuttgart, Hannover, Munich, Mannheim and Berlin. The post German opera director, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.

The British actor narrates a cosmic new work by Sibelius descendant Lauri Porra. The composer’s wife conducts. You may well have heard it here first. The post Life, the universe and … Stephen Fry appeared […]