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Barenboim hands over the baton
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San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Death of French maestro, 68
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Covent Garden picks 3 Aussies, 1 Ukrainian, 1 Brit
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How many pianos are still being made in Europe?
The head of Blüthner, Christian Blüthner-Haessler, reckons about 11,000…
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‘We were in awe of Eva… her natural beauty, inside and out’
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Start the year with the least-known Tchaikovsky
My first 2014 album of the week on…
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‘Pop a pill to get perfect pitch’
Takao Hensch, professor of molecular and cellular biology…
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Gramophone takes a new turn, backwards
The magazine, which at first found it unnecessary…
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Tragic cycling death of London-trained French soprano, aged 28
Friends have informed us of the death of…
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New video: Back to work? It’s that certain feeling…
Boris Giltburg, Reine Elisabeth winner, sets me off…
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‘Classical music, kiss my ass’
The world’s most followed cellist has given a…
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First spat of 2014: Maestro opens opens fire on Canadian Opera
Bramwell Tovey, music director of the Vancouver Symphony…
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Lorin Maazel declares himself vegetarian
Almost 84, the conductor announced a change of…
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Death of an American composer and amazing art collector
Henri Lazarof, who assembled a $100 million modern…
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Early music figure is named in Guildhall abuse investigation
A prominent figure in the period performance world…
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How to build a conductor from the ground up
Our eye-popping discussion of footwear for orchestras has…
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Can playing the violin make you slim?
At the time of year when everyone talks…
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A prodigious conductor has died, aged 93
Milan Horvat was the formative chief conductor of…
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Culture adds seven times more to the economy than motor cars
The French Ministry of Culture has come up…
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Amadeus producer dies
Saul Zaentz, who won fistfuls of Oscars with…
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‘Furtwängler used to spend every Christmas with us’
We’ve been sent the fascinating video memoirs of…
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Catching up with the heroes of the samizdat counter-revolution
A fascinating essay from Michael Johnson, revisiting the…
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