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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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New video: Where did the Flying Dutchman find peace? In Cuba….
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The company they tried to kill has just won Opera of the Year
When the last Dutch Government went looking for…
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Peter Gelb: Only the Met can turn singers into movie stars
From an interview with Reuters on Met screenings:…
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Could 2014 be the Year of the Mandolin
Chris Thile has reached #2 in US classical…
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Why is America’s musicology Tsar cited 26 times in a new composer biography?
Reviewing Musorgksy and his Circle by Stephen Walsh…
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J S Bach ‘got fed up with church’
A newly discovered letter in Leipzig suggests that…
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Gerard Mortier on cancer, opera and Wikipedia
About to undergo his second round of chemotherapy,…
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‘The Nick Cave of classical’? Come on…
Even by Sony standards the hype is far-fetched….
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How Wojciech Kilar treated his conductors
The Polish conductor Antoni Wit was a close…
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In some US orchestras, they bring guns to rehearsal
Why? To use on whom? Discuss. …
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This is the queue today for the library
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Cut! One of the great film composers has died
We’re receiving confirmation from Poland of the death…
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Very angry tweet: French birds demand share of Messiaen’s royalties
The Union Ornithologique de France is getting into a…
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I’m a pianist, living downstairs from the world’s greatest player
Zsolt Bognar is a fine young pianist who…
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China’s violin method: ‘Study and train hard, according to a scientific method’
The Chinese Violin Society has been holding its…
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He turns out the lights in the world’s remotest opera house
Raimundo Pereira do Nascimento is the electrician of…
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Wedding of the New Year: A mandolin gets married
Our social secretary reports that Chris Thile, the…
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Why did director ram-raid the Elysée Palace? He was trying to save his theatre…
Details are emerging about last week’s car crash…
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The Pavarotti singer who overcame a harelip
Rae Woodland, who is thought to be the…
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Russian opera singer says anti-gay law is ‘hurting our artists abroad’
The first sign of artistic dissent within Russia…
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