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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
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Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
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Orchestras
Blomstedt, 97, premieres adolescent Mozart
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BBC names Young Musician semi-finalists
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Opera
The concert pianist who has become an opera star
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More artists on the merry-go-round
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Opera
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A successful string quartet must come together like the Beatles
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Tár team lobbies maestros to create Oscar buzz
We have been hearing from a number of…
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Orchestras
Munich’s got a new horn, too
The Bavarian State Orchestra has told the Hungarian…
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Orchestras
New 2nd horn at the Met
After a final shootout audition with one other…
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RIP
Vienna agent dies
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Why Beethoven
Beethoven had mixed feelings about the Pastoral Symphony
In today’s Spectator, I write about my childhood…
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Opera
American Brünnhilde quits German Ring
A week before opening night, the American soprano…
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Why Mahler
Leonard Slatkin: Where the movie Tár gets the music all wrong
The eminent American conductor has posted reservations about…
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Menuhin School is sued over child sex
Fourteen former students at the Yehudi Menuhin School…
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Orchestras
This conductor also sings the finale of Mahler Fourth
I am not sure this has ever been…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Watch: Cliburn winner’s London debut
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Orchestras
Tár is not a bad movie
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Orchestras
US orchestra picks new baton from 207 contenders
When Steven Larsen retired from the Rockford Symphony…
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Opera
Putin pet pops up with pianist competition
The wholly compromised pro-war soprano Hibla Gerzmava is…
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Opera
More boos for Paris Isolde
With much of France on strike today, we…
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Why Beethoven
New cadenza for the Beethoven violin concerto
The German violinist Veronika Eberle made her debut…
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Ruth Leon recommends…. Astronomicum Caesorium Book – Met
Astronomicum Caesorium Book – Met This most…
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