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The Ring man cometh
Decca is marking the birth centenary of John…
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Barenboim quits Berlin Phil’s Europakonzert
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The very best of Andrew Davis (4): His last recording
We hear that Andrew recently recorded for Chandos…
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The very best of Andrew Davis (5): Panic stations
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Mourned by maestros the world over
Images are starting to come in of Rod…
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Maestro news: Another one’s out for the summer
Semyon Bychkov has damaged his hip. Vasily Petrenko…
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The Met’s season in numbers: Ticket sales down 17.5%, Cinemas down 10.5%
Crain’s New York Business has been doing the…
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Classical and jazz composers say they’re being annihilated by i-Tunes and Spotify
A thorough and extensive piece of journalism by…
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Polish tenor makes it onto 60 Minutes
Watch Piotr Beczala here.
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America’s oldest pianos are being brought back into play (video)
Artis Wodehouse has been filming the restoration of…
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Tragedy in the orchestra: LSO loses trumpet player in road smash
Statement just in from the London Symphony Orchestra:…
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Two Wagner operas are three-quarters unsold this week
One of our readers alerts us to some…
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‘Mozart’s three last symphonies were, in fact, one’
That’s Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s latest theory, so he has…
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Label news: Queen Elisabeth champion signs exclusive deal with Naxos
It is reported in Switzerland that Boris Giltburg,…
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Breaking: Ring director considers legal action against Bayreuth
Frank Castorf, last-minute director of last summer’s catastrophic…
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Mischa Maisky: The most unbelievable musician I ever met
The ongoing controversy about Isaac Stern has sparked…
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Le Sucre du printemps: Just desserts with Slava, Rubinstein and cigar-smoking Galina
Another priceless new video from a lunch to…
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Composer is named president of Munich conservatoire
The composer Bernd Redmann has been announced this…
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Yale student wins Leipzig Bach prize
A School of Music that has lagged in…
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First false move by Met union
A statement from the musicians union president Tino…
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A musical survivor from the genocide no-one dares to mention
I came across a lovely piece in a…
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BBC I-player is down. Bad news for the Proms.
The BBC i-player has been largely shut down…
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New Orleans veteran trumpet dies, aged 103
Lionel Ferbos died today, two days after his…
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Rare video: Rubinstein tells Slava a Heifetz story
(en francais, but you can get the gist…
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