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Orchestras
Steven Isserlis: ‘There’s a lot of me, me, me playing which I cannot stand’
The cellist has let rip in an interview…
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Orchestras
Gustavo Dudamel: Why I quit Paris Opera
The conductor was asked a direct question by…
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Opera
In stressed times, adults turn to opera
From my latest essay in The Critic: Days…
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Stephen Hough: No phones, please, between bars 123-176; 185-199…
The pianist has issued the following advisory to…
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Opera chief dies in house fire
Local newspapers report the death of Serge Gaymard…
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Lumsden stands down
Winchester Cathedral has announced the departure of Andrew…
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ballet
Not the Royal Opera House? Not a good idea
The Covent Garden building that has staged opera…
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News
Mallwitz misses TV stardom
The much-discussed Berlin conductor Joanna Mallwitz has pulled…
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Opera
Guildhall lands head of vocal
press release: We are thrilled to announce Sarah…
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Orchestras
London orchestra gets into Downing Street
press release: The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) will…
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RIP
Sudden death of leading Scottish tenor, 58
The death has been announced of David Maxwell…
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RIP
Philadelphia concertmaster dies
Message from the orchestra: It is with deep…
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News
Another major string quartet breaks up
The St. Lawrence String Quartet, founded in Toronto…
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Orchestras
Boston has new principal flute
We reported three and a half months ago…
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Daily Comfort Zone
But good, no? Pick your best Mrs Lovett from 10
Strictly for the Sondheimers among us. The worst…
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Book now for the 2024/25 Season at Wigmore Hall
Tickets now on sale for concerts up to…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Things you really shouldn’t do to a violin
The New York composer Julia Wolfe won a…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Yuja plays Soviet jazz
The Soviet composer Nikolai Kapustin played most of…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Slavoj Zizek: The music that made me is Schoenberg
The Slovene public intellectual has issued a video…
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Orchestras
What really went on when Beethoven premiered the 9th
From the new issue of The Critic: Early…
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News
Yunchan Lim’s teacher plays Carnegie Hall
South Korea’s young Cliburn winner has been an…
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RIP
The pianist who lit up the Lake District
We have been notified of the death of…
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Daily Comfort Zone
One of Andrew Davis’s lesser known passions
The English composer Robert Simpson, a BBC wage…
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News
Guardian damns Britannia
An editorial in the organ of the Left…
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