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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Orchestras
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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Listen to a long-awaited Song of Silence
The French pianist Hélène Grimaud has been searching…
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Do you compose, or are you composed?
Bruce Adolphe has been working on an age-old…
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The good is not always the enemy of the best
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The…
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Breaking: Lahav Shani takes Munich
It has been confirmed today that the Israel…
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Daily Comfort Zone
She blew the whistle on Chopin’s anti-semitism
In an interview with her children, I talk…
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Backless Rachmaninov is the new big thing
The Vienna-based Russian pianist Anastasia Huppmann has just…
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How the Emersons’ cellist saved my musical life
Here’s a wonderfully revealing reflection on America’s doyen…
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Orchestras
A thought for International Holocaust Day
Sergei Slonimsky (1932-2020), one of the foremost Soviet…
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Out and about: Khatia confirms she’s pregnant
The effulgent French-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has just…
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Orchestras
Boston gives Tanglewood to trusted violist
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Ed Gazouleas…
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Opera
Ukraine bans artists from appearing anywhere with Anna Netrebko
Ukraine has pulled its orchestra and other artists…
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Exclusive: La Scala starts streaming live
We understand tha La Scala Milan is on…
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Which opera? (Get a grip, Pina)
Tonight, Slippedisc courtesy of OperaVision, will take viewers…
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Orchestras
Finnish conductor pays to save national youth orchestra
The conductor Mikko Franck has donated 75,000 Euros…
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Orchestras
London has new principal doublebass
The London Symphony Orchestra has gone to Spain…
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LA Times: Tár harms classical music
In the film industry’s morning paper, Mark Swed…
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Opera
Two tenors croak it in Tokyo
This is rehearsal video for the Domingo-Carreras concert…
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Opera
Opera’s biggest current scandal is Cologne
Ten years ago, the city of Cologne commissioned…
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Popular soprano dies, at 57
The Dutch-Italian soprano Angelina Ruzzafante has died after…
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Orchestras
So, Yuja Wang, what do you think of conductors?
From an interview with David Patrick Stearns in…
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