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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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Just in: Australia’s only classical magazine faces closure
The Gramophone offshoot, Limelight, is being wound up…
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London pays tribute to Patrice Chéreau (who only worked here once)
Press release: photo: Lebrecht Music&Arts On Sunday 15…
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Blind and autistic, the boy musician who changed my life
The Irish baritone Sam McElroy, fiancé of the…
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World’s fastest guitarist?
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Russia is blowing its culture budget on limos
Nice story in Ria-Novosti. The Ministry of Culture…
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Hundreds at Sir John Tavener’s funeral
The ceremony was conducted in the Greek Orthodox…
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Video: Jussi Björling sings Prayer of Thanksgiving
The great Swedish tenor, never knowingly outsung. Watch…
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An event of continental magnitude: Frank Gehry to build concert hall for Dudamel in Venezuela
El Sistema founder Jose Antonio Abreu announced last…
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Last-minute Kitsch: All I want for Hanukah is La Scala, the Lego version
h/t: Roberta Ferrari. And Repubblica. Anyone name the…
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Watch the future King of England sing
A clip of Prince William has come online,…
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Composer throws back Government award in cultural protest
Catalan composer Josep Soler, 78, has refused to receive…
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Hollywood Barbican
Love this pic, newly posted by JoAnn Kane Music…
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Best-ever wedding video?
I’m involved in a forthcoming happy event, and…
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Watch: Sigmund Freud’s home movies
From the same source that brought us the…
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Breaking: Kissin to receive Israeli citizenship
The pianist Evgeny Kissin, an outspoken champion of…
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Sick list: Abbado still out of action
Bernard Haitink has jumped in for next week’s…
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Just in: Vienna votes big increase in opera funding
We haven’t read all the small print, but…
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Mexico’s great mezzo has died
Oralia Dominguez, who sang Amneris on her debut…
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Ever heard Bartók on the harpsichord?
I’ve been filming a conversation with the inspirational…
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Just in: Spanish court acquits pianist of noise pollution
After all the media hysterics about her facing…
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