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The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra performed last night with Daniel Barenboim in Lübeck, birthplace of the Nobel-winning German author. The concert’s soloist was Lang Lang. Questions are being raised about the orchestra’s purported neutrality after Barenboim’s […]

Alexandre Solopov died on January 13 in Montreal, Canada. Born in Vladivostok, Sasha moved to Moscow at age 16, graduating from the classes of Lev Vlassenko and Mikhail Pletnev. He moved to Montreal in 1996 […]

We hear that Spanish violinst Raquel Areal Martinez has pased her audition and been offered a place in the Berlin Philharmonic. Raquel, 25, from Galicia, is presently a scholar in the orchestra’s Karajan Academy. She […]