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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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RIP
Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Orchestras
San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
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Eminent US baritone, RIP
The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa,…
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Podcast
Podcast: On Barenboim’s wrong notes and Marked-up Argerich
It’s the latest edition of Backchat, the Slippedisc…
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Cate Blanchett: Classical music is so insular and hierarchical
The Australian actor, promoting her film Tar, has…
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News
Worst news: Wales to dump its premier concert hall
Cardiff City Council is proposing to give up…
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Ruth Leon recommends
Ruth Leon recommends….Songs for Troubled Times – Music from Reformation England – Cinquecento
Songs for Troubled Times – Music from Reformation…
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RIP
Death of an American pianist in Paris
The Paris-based pianist and vocal coach David Triestram…
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RIP
Composers pay tribute to the late Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem died on Friday at the age…
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News
Cleveland gets $5m youth orchestra gift from two teachers
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra has received a…
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Herbert Blomstedt, 95, learns a new symphony
We hear that the veteran Swedish conductor has…
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Album Of The Week
Mozart as you’ve never heard him before
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week. …The…
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Daily Comfort Zone
How to visualise a song recital
The composer Lori Laitman has found a novel…
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Orchestras
Rudolf Serkin rarity from 1936
Another brilliant retrieval by Mikhail Khaykov, a broadcast…
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News
Anyone notice that CDs are selling again?
Rolling Stone magazine has reported that CD sales…
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RIP
Tim Page remembers Ned Rorem
From the Washington Post obituary of a great…
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RIP
Sad news: Ned Rorem has died
The great American songbook composer (and much else)…
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Orchestras
The new Robbie Williams comes with full orchestra
The British pop star is having tryouts at…
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Orchestras
Where’s John Borstlap?
The former regular Slippedisc commentator has a major…
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News
Where was the NY Times when the Israel Phil came by?
We’re hearing lots of complaints about shrinking classical…
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Local soprano is new boss at Fort Worth Opera
The sun barely set in Texas before they…
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News
The world’s first Metaverse Symphony
The Hong Kong Philharmonic is claiming a breakthrough….
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RIP
Death of a La Scala composer
The opera composer Azio Corghi has died, aged…
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