Christopher Russell is about to give the US premiere of the fifth symphony by the intriguing Leningrad hermit, Galina Ustvolskaya. Chris tells Slipped Dosc how

The tenor has been added to a Salzburg puppet show. He thinks it’s ‘super’. Watch video here. It’s quite well made.    

The Mannes School of Music has reported the death of Elena Leonova, an outstanding piano teacher who founded the New York Piano Society. No cause

The Liverpool Phil has just rolled out 40 concerts between January and March 2021. The charge is £10 per stream or 5 for £45. The

The conductor Karel Mark Chichon has been awarded Latvian citizenship for ‘special merit’ (the citation said) in his efforts to raise the reputation of Latvian

The much admired André Gagnon has died of a neurogeneraive condition. Aside from success as a composer, he played piano for visiting French chansonniers such

The leading Dutch composer will watch tomorrow’s premiere of his final composition, titled ‘May’, from a care home. Its intended premiere in May was postponed

The organist and conductor Michael Hedley, resident at Amsterdam’s Sint-Nicolaasbasiliek for the past twenty years, died yesterday, two weeks after being diagnosed with Covid-19. An

It’s the centenary of Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt. Premiered in Cologne on December 4, 1920, it became the most performed opera in Vienna between 1920

The Vienna Phil are going ahead with their Strauss extravaganza in an empty, locked-out Musikverein. The national broadcaster ORF will inject ‘interactive’ applause at appropriaute

Chris Morley’s review of the latest CBSO centenary concert: CBSO (streamed from Symphony Hall) ***** This latest streamed concert from the CBSO in these locked-down