Sinatra made a hit out of Kurt Weill’s Speak Low in 1943, and would so again with September Song. So spare a thought for what

While the Concertgebouw’s Mahler cycle in May 2020 is looking increasingly unlikely, the Leipzig Gewandhaus today announced a full symphonic cycle for May 2021. Ten

In contrast to the Met, which won’t. The Philharmonic has just cancelled the rest of its season with this announcement: Members of the New York

The death has been reported of Jean Leber, 80, founder of the much-recorded Paris Octet and a progressive conservatoire director. He had been diagnosed with

The composer was working on an American children’s opera around the time of his death in 1950. Barrie Kosky, unfurling his next season at Berlin’s

Culture Minister Monika Grütters has just announced what she called a ‘rescue umbrella for the cultural, creative and media sectors’. ‘We know the needs, we

The Met’s fastest-rising soprano is the latest to face Zsolt Bognar in Living the Classical Life. She is wonderfully strraightforward, addressing every question head-on, no

Slipped Disc has been in touch with the team behind the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s sensational Beethoven 9th, played by musicians who are self-isolated in their homes.

The most reassuring violinist that ever lived, in a wonderfully arcance recording from 1924: Courtesy of Brinton Smith