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Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
The Serenade in C K 648 for two…
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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
A televised selection process that raised concerns about…
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How conductors sounded (7): Willem Mengelberg says ‘Beethoven was, like me, a Dutchman’
The Concertgebouw founder, in an extremely rare spoken…
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Death at the opera: today’s premiere is cancelled after backstage fatality
On Friday at the Teatro Colon in Buenos…
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The most treasured pianist alive
I have been wanting to write for a…
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Ivry in Africa: rare video unearthed
One of the French networks has retrieved extraordinary…
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New video: Chanukah a capella in the laboratory
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One-day only offer: Butterfly for £10
£10 standing places now available for today’s #ENOButterfly!…
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Just in: Mariss Jansons quits midway through Sydney concert
Touring has taken its toll again on the…
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How conductors sounded (6): George Szell, reasonable, charming …
… didactic, self-satisfied … and rather long-winded.
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How conductors sounded (4): Sir Thomas Beecham says’ ‘There’s only one way…’
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Sondheim star returns to West End stage, aged 88
It’s Angela Lansbury. Need we say more? She’ll…
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Conductors are just waiters, says Esa-Pekka Salonen
… and women can do it just as…
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Shocking: Swedes stop Ring to stage Pink Floyd
We drew your attention in summer to the…
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Breaking: BBC cancels concert after Glasgow disaster
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra issued the following…
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How conductors sounded (5): Karajan, in immaculate French (and with Ozawa, in English)
and a fascinating conversation with Seiji Ozawa
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How conductors sounded (3): Dmitri Mitropoulos in rehearsal
Congenial, respectful, unfailingly encouraging.
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How conductors sounded (2): Toscanini talks about Otello (in Italian)
Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.
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Bad result: Concertgebouw fails to beat Australian XI
Despite moral support from Maris Jansons, a football…
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Dramaturg wanted. Oh, don’t we have one already?
Much flutter in the operatic dovecotes this morning….
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How conductors sounded (1): Furtwängler talks about Beethoven (en Francais)
This is the first of a short series….
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Headline of the year: ‘As an opera star, I worry about haemorrhoids’
Well, you’ve just got to read the article,…
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