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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
There is no room for Sir Simon Rattle…
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Who’s Vienna’s favourite conductor?
The Vienna Philharmonic has just awarded honorary membership…
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BBC Proms can no longer afford US orchestras
The summers season, rolled out today, shows welcome…
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Maestro moves, maestro stays
Latest leaps on the merry-go-round: – Vasily Petrenko…
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In mid-concert, concertmaster gets married
Congratulations to two Philadelphia players – first violinist…
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Yundi is back on Chopin jury
Slipped Disc’s scout at the Chopin Competition reports…
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Watch the two tenors (one ex)
A fun duet, newly uploaded, by Jonas Kaufmann…
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In defence of Tom Watson, MP
Now the ratpack is upon him for smearing…
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Passing of a Peabody dean
Ray Robinson, who headed the Peabody conservatory from…
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Valery Gergiev ‘gave little’ to the LSO
In a blog that the Guardian has not…
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Airport nightmare: Russians seize concertmaster’s violin
Josef Spacek, concert master of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,…
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Anyone seen Chopin’s missing juror?
We had a cryptic message from a Warsaw…
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Ankara bomb blanks out orchestra opening
A notice on the website of the Bilkent…
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A Russian wins richest violin competition
The winner of the 9th Joseph Joachim International…
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Rare video: Stanislavsky shows how to direct
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was a director who decisively…
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Music critic quits saying, ‘pop’s present is unusually burdened by the excellence of its past’
Wonderful piece by Marcus Berkmann who is walking away after…
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Andre Previn: ‘My problem is… I just don’t rewrite’
The veteran composer-conductor, 86, is in sparkling form…
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‘My teacher had been killed and I was at a loose end’
At 83, the eminent American pianist Jerome Lowenthal,…
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Philly eyes the barricades over Kaiser waltz
Negotiations are the Philadelphia Orchestra are deadlocked. The…
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Famous string quartet seeks viola player. Or violinist.
Just in from the celebrated Artemis Quartet: Search…
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Watch: Page turner saves sonata from sudden death
Things got a bit out of hand at…
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Advice to travelling musicians from the ever-friendly TSA
The flautist Jessica Schmitz, whose instrument was cruelly…
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Troubled Carnegie Hall shares new chair with the Met
Carnegie Hall has installed Mercedes Bass as interim…
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Musicians mourn favourite hotel manager
Those of us who travel a lot can…
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