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Steven Isserlis: ‘There’s a lot of me, me, me playing which I cannot stand’
The cellist has let rip in an interview…
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Gustavo Dudamel: Why I quit Paris Opera
The conductor was asked a direct question by…
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In stressed times, adults turn to opera
From my latest essay in The Critic: Days…
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Stephen Hough: No phones, please, between bars 123-176; 185-199…
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If Berlin wants a second Karajan, it’s not Thielemann
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‘Here’s why I prefer composers from my own country’
The anonymous Corymbus makes an interesting St George’s…
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Maestro moved: Cleveland drops Miami conductor
Giancarlo Guerrero will cease to be principal guest…
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Top German quartet switches viola
After 16 years in the outstanding Mandelring Quartet,…
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Conductor quits Berlin
Having turned around the fortunes of the Berlin…
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The glummest BBC Proms launch in three decades
Those with memories longer than a politician’s promise…
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Fly on the Wall lands on Steven Isserlis
Stewart French’s project to film musicians in the…
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Just in: Valentina Lisitsa to give two Toronto concerts
The pianist whose anti-Kiev tweets prompted her cancellation…
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Berlin loses a cultural institution
Many in the music world will be saddened…
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Musicians and authors turn on the UK Greens
The Green Party has published a proposal to…
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Sick list: Star pianist cancels 6 weeks
Krystian Zimerman has unspecified health problems, ‘a slight…
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Maddest BBC Prom for years
Has to be the Valery Gergiev concert with…
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BBC invites abolished orchestra to the Proms
The best name that leaps out of the…
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Bad hair day: BBC leaks the Proms
First there was the Friday drop to the…
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Really edgy playing
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King’s Singer quits
After 25 years, David Hurley is moving on….
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Classical record sales just keep on falling
The latest weekly Nielsen stats from the US…
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Glyndebourne bids farewell to late press officer
We have just learned of the death of…
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Gloom in Belgium as new music centre shuts down
We are informed by a reader that the…
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