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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Opera
18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna…
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Piano legend turns 90
Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s…
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Nordic man of the year
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Welsh National Opera teaches Long-Covid lessons
Press release: Welsh National Opera has announced that…
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News
Kirill Petrenko cancels February with a bad foot
It’s the same ailment he suffered from last…
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Orchestras
Covent Garden’s Tannhäuser, without Tannhäuser: first review
One of this season’s Royal Opera flagship new…
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Opera
Covent Garden’s new show hits first night calamity
From our man in the stalls: First night…
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Opera
Is this the right moment to stage War and Peace?
Everyone’s doing it, apparently. Jonathan Sutherland reviews a…
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Another Aussie joins Berlin Phil
The young Australian musician Harry Ward has won…
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Orchestras
Marin Alsop: Women help women conductors
In an interview with David Gajdos intended for…
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News
Jonas Kaufmann: I had Covid when I met Prince Charles
The tenor says he was feeling rotten when…
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Why Beethoven
John Barbirolli conducted more 7ths than any other symphony
A reader has written to the Daily Telegraph…
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Man collapses in Yuja’s marathon
Slippedisc readers at Carnegie Hall last night report…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Listen to a long-awaited Song of Silence
The French pianist Hélène Grimaud has been searching…
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Daily Comfort Zone
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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News
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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Daily Comfort Zone
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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News
Out and about: Khatia confirms she’s pregnant
The effulgent French-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has just…
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