The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester has named a successor to Sir Mark Elder as he ends 22 years as international chair of conducting. Elder’s successor is ‘world-renowned conductor Professor Nicolás Pasquet’. Pasquet […]
The Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz went into the 2005 Chopin Competition with a strategy to isolate himself from all other performers and from the outside world. He read no newspapers, heard no radio. ‘I found […]
The Concertgebouw management has responded swiftly to protests on slippedisc.com: Statement regarding Jerusalem Quartet concerts With disbelief and anger, many have reacted to our decision not to go ahead with the Jerusalem Quartet’s two concerts […]