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Berlin Phil drops Rattle
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BBC’s Composer of the Week is the one the world forgot
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And the winner of the first Gerard Mortier Award is… Gerard Mortier
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Dr Joyce to Juilliard: I’m just gonna picture you naked
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Just in: Top quartet loses its viola
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New song: The hell of budget airlines
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Peter Gelb’s wife to conduct in London
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Cancer battle cellist appeals for public donations
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The batonless frustrations of a great conductor’s son
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Wrong Tchaikovsky ending at the Berlin Philharmonic?
Slipped Disc reader Andrew Condon was enjoying a…
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A concert grand is washed up on Manhattan’s shore
New York psychotherapist Carla Mannino was cycling to…
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Jazzman’s doublebass is battered by US security
John Patitucci is a Grammy-winning virtuoso bass player,…
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And the winners of the Arthur Rubinstein are….
1 Antonii Baryshevskyi (Ukraine) 2 Steven Lin…
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Breaking: Korean soprano pips Belgian favourite to Queen Elisabeth prize
The results are in. First is Sumi Hwang. Second…
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How to conduct with both arms at your side
This is Leonard Bernstein’s legendary performance of the…
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You can’t go to Paris without getting Hallelujah’d
These are four guys from Uganda and pianist…
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Beethoven’s Dud Sonata
Literally, too good to be true.
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An organ shocker for the weekend
For all lovers and loathers of the big…
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Chicago star: Why I quit the orchestra for the academy
David McGill, who is stepping down after 17…
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A Chinese pianist abandons chopsticks
Yundi prefers kebabs. According to his latest…
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Crime news: Andrea Bocelli’s winery is hit by fraud
Police in the Italian regions of Lazio, Liguria…
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