Most Read Today:
-
Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
-
Orchestras
San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
-
Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
-
RIP
Death of French maestro, 68
Message received: The Forum Voix Etouffées regrets to…
Latest News:
-
main
London pianist is convicted of groping girl while wooing her mum
The verdict is reported here. Robin Zebaida, 49, has…
-
main
Year of the Mandolin? It’s started a day early…
Sinfini have jumped the gun with an impromptu Bach…
-
main
Trouble in Vienna as concert hall loses main sponsor
While the Vienna Philharmonic gleams and waltzes in…
-
main
Which music department called female students ‘little pink bunnies’?
According to an unfair dismissal case before the…
-
main
The man who discovered two-piano concertos
The pianist Martin Berkofsky, who died yesterday, restored…
-
main
Outrage at JFK as Customs men smash a musician’s instruments
Boujemaa Razgui, a flute virtuoso who lives in…
-
main
Just in: Rare honour for Simon Rattle
The outgoing Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been appointed…
-
main
Sibelius and the Freemasons: who else was in?
In the quietest of weeks, the one that…
-
main
The Met wouldn’t sell seats where you can’t see. Would it?
Our intrepid New York operavores, Elizabeth Frayer and Shawn…
-
main
The top-selling US classical record in Christmas week was…
Well that’s the title. Oh, sorry! It’s Libera….
-
main
The Vienna Philharmonic will be wearing Vivienne Westwood
Not the orchestra (pace the publicity headline). The…
-
main
The ultimate 2013 list: the 10 most read stories on Slipped Disc (updated)
UPDATE: Due to a huge exclusive breaking on…
-
main
Katherine Jenkins ‘to receive New Year’s honour’
Two tabloids have broken the embargo on the…
-
Uncategorized
New video: Where did the Flying Dutchman find peace? In Cuba….
There’s a Deutsche Welle report on Wagner in…
-
main
The company they tried to kill has just won Opera of the Year
When the last Dutch Government went looking for…
-
main
Peter Gelb: Only the Met can turn singers into movie stars
From an interview with Reuters on Met screenings:…
-
main
Could 2014 be the Year of the Mandolin
Chris Thile has reached #2 in US classical…
-
main
Why is America’s musicology Tsar cited 26 times in a new composer biography?
Reviewing Musorgksy and his Circle by Stephen Walsh…
-
main
J S Bach ‘got fed up with church’
A newly discovered letter in Leipzig suggests that…
-
main
Gerard Mortier on cancer, opera and Wikipedia
About to undergo his second round of chemotherapy,…
-