Every weeknight in March, Wigmore Hall will be live streaming concerts featuring some of the world’s best performers including Alina Ibragimova, Steven Isserlis, Iestyn Davies,
The recent existential dispute with Peter Gelb and his board has liberated many musicians in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra to speak freely about their lives,
Sotheby’s ‘unseen’ Mozart (first seen on Slipped Disc) sold today at the low end of the auction house’s estimate, making £218,000.
Toshiyuki Kamioka, 54, has made his career in Germany. He was Generalmusidirektor in Wiesbaden from 1996 to 2004, and in Herford from 1998. Since 2004
Joshua Weilerstein has been named artistic director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne from next summer on a four year deal. Recently, he came second
Andrew Patner tells us that the film director Mike Nichols, who died today, was the first announcer at WFMT Chicago and creator of its 61
We are sad to report the death in Bristol, after a long illness, of Robin Miller, a prince among British oboists. He was 72. Robin
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He was paper-thin and confined to a wheelchair when I saw him at the Warsaw Chopin festival in August last year, but Frans Brüggen was
The Mexican conductor Luis Fernando Luna Guarneros, missing since Sunday, has been found murdered. The death is being treated as a crime of passion, although
Ivey Dickson ran the National Youth Orchestra from 1966 to 1984, shifting the repertoire from English-traditional to Stravinsky, Bartok and Boulez. Simon Rattle, a percussion
The death has been announced of Mike Nichols, the movie director. He made Simon and Garfunkel into huge stars by using their songs as soundtrack
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