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Furtwängler: An important reassessment
The Wilhelm Furtwängler Society has shared with us…
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Orchestras
Not a male chorus any more
In our report on Wednesday’s performance of the…
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Opera
Florence dishonours Puccini
A concert at the Teatro Maggio Musicale to…
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La Scala orchestra strikes on Puccini 100th
The musicians picked their moment to blank the…
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Katharina Wagner to direct in Beijing
Journalist Sebastian Hammelehle gets some strong news breaks…
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Opera
Bayreuth loses its Brangäne
The Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova has missed too…
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Bridgerton makes stars of UK string quartet
If you’ve watched more than ten minutes of…
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Daily Comfort Zone
When Walt Disney faked a meeting with Prokofiev
The Hollywood illusionist made a film of himself…
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Top quartet swaps violist
The award-laden Cuarteto Casals of Barcelona has lost…
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RIP
Death of a superb Violetta
The Italian soprano Elena Mauti Nunziata has died…
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Scala Radio is cancelled
The UK younger-listeners station has been hustled into…
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RIP
Death of a stellar violinist, 73
The much-admired international violinist Eugene Sarbu died yesterday…
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So, Kamala Harris, do you know music?
It appears the Veep has taste. Watch.
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News
How short is an arm in the arts?
Richard Bratby, in a poignant analysis in The…
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Daily Comfort Zone
A titan of the piano turns 80
Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the…
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Composer’s widow weds
The Israeli composer Ella Sheriff, widow of Noam…
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Salzburg artistic director is banned from local cafe
The persistent journalist Axel Brüggemann has obtained confirmation…
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RIP
Death of Grove editor, 58
The Society for American Music has announced the…
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RIP
Remember New York City Opera?
It died, for lack of funds and an…
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Orchestras
BeethovenFest to feature colonialism, exploitation and LGBTQ+
The Bonn festival, in October, has booked Belgium’s…
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Orchestras
Finn star: I’ll do Vaughan Williams in France
From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the…
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Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’
Never lost for an eye-catching line, the pianist…
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Beethoven abused at Paris Olympic preview
For lack of taste and talent you would…
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RIP
Sudden death of French gadfly
The erudite critic and provocateur Benoît Duteurtre, presenter…
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