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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Eminent US baritone, RIP
The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa,…
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Piano legend turns 90
Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s…
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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Tensions simmer in London concert audience
From the weekly review by Fiona Maddocks in…
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Jump-in of the week
For those with a literal turn of mind,…
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200 unheard songs by Donizetti?
Opera Rara plans to record them. A strong…
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Opera
Scotland farewells a flamboyant head of music
A fond tribute by Tim German to a…
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Orchestras
Turkish pianist is centre stage in new Concertgebouw season
Press release: The Concertgebouw is pleased to announces…
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Why Beethoven
Revealing new cadenzas in the Beethoven concerto
From the press release for Maria Duenas’ DG…
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Opera
The cellist who turned into a top countertenor
Bejun Mehta, a second cousin of the conductor, …
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Music in Odesa, a year into the war
An atmospheric chamber concert of mostly Ukrainian music…
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Opera
This Polish Boris Godunov comes from … Tokyo
Tonight Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, streams Boris Godunov…
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Martha Argerich breaks a rule with the Israel Phil
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: ……
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News
Countryhouse opera rocked as artistic director quits
The conductor Nicholas Chalmers has resigned abruptly after…
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Orchestras
Vienna signs a French principal guest
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra, which lost its music…
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RIP
Death of a cello legend, 100
Santiago Carvalho informs us that Alexander Cameron, principal…
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Opera
British soprano jumps in as Salzburg’s Venus
Elīna Garanča has dropped out of the Salzburg…
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News
Jobs that are hanging by a thread at the BBC
This morning’s announcement of a face-saving ‘solution’ for…
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News
Official: BBC Singers are saved
The BBC issued the following semi-equivocal statement at…
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Orchestras
Esa-Pekka cancels London with Covid
Message from the Philharmonia Orchestra about Sunday’s bleeding…
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News
Just in: Putin sends Gergiev to Beijing
Chinese media are reporting that Russia’s prize conductor…
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Orchestras
Claudio Abbado’s grave is also fading away
Further to our report yesterday on the shocking…
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Orchestras
German wins London conducting contest
The young Italian-German conductor Nicolò Foron was last…
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