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2011.05.01: Rebel concert in Rio: first report
2011.05.01: Nastiest opera ever - first pictures
2011.04.29: Happy birthday, Zubin
2011.04.29: The case of the missing Master
2011.04.29: Poignant appeal by eminent soloist to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
2011.04.29: Newest royal music goes up online
2011.04.29: Won't donate to the opera? We'll sue you...
2011.04.28: Sell a violin and save Japan
2011.04.28: Brazil crisis - some applause, please, and some boos
2011.04.28: Is this the first woman to conduct at La Scala?
2011.04.28: Nastiest opera ever?
2011.04.28: Looted Klimt - the Mahler connections
2011.04.27: Philadelphia star quits to join New York Philharmonic
2011.04.27: One blast too many for EMI?
2011.04.27: Another orchestra on the brink
2011.04.27: Mahler dismembered
2011.04.27: DG chief producer goes back to vinyl
2011.04.24: Father of the CD? No, he wasn't
2011.04.24: Last shout for Charlie Mac
2011.04.24: Brazil - Le Monde awakes to the crisis
2011.04.24: Breaking: The black box man has gone
2011.04.23: Lament for the Liebersons
2011.04.22: She's out, she's edgy and she accepts no returns
2011.04.22: Bad tweets from the Canaries
2011.04.22: Breakthough composer signs off
2011.04.22: Aussie arts manager in line for top China post
2011.04.22: Aussie arts manager in line for top China post
2011.04.21: Locked-out musicians play Mozart on TV
2011.04.21: Prince Charles puffs up his fave composer
2011.04.21: ... and one green shoot
2011.04.21: Orchestral spring? well, it's certainly open season
2011.04.21: Another orchestra goes under
2011.04.18: Hot pianist tip confirmed
2011.04.18: Would you respond to this appeal?
2011.04.18: Shall I go as a Nazi or a nun?
2011.04.18: 'I am Viagra to classical music and aspirin to pop,'
2011.04.17: A small, forgotten orchestral war
2011.04.17: Better maestro news: Mariss renews
2011.04.17: So what is it with Jews and violins?
2011.04.17: Music's golden couple splits
2011.04.16: Philadelphia - it's the worst outcome
2011.04.15: Is this the beginning of an orchestral spring?
2011.04.15: The busiest conductor that ever lived
2011.04.15: Two revved-up Brits in the Van Cliburns
2011.04.15: Last peep from the pussycats den
2011.04.14: Going live at the BBC Proms
2011.04.14: How I helped make Proms history
2011.04.14: Sunday with Stockhausen, right up there
2011.04.14: .... und Morgen die ganze Welt....
2011.04.14: I saw your agent p*ss away your future
2011.04.13: Exclusive: The classical future as seen from the Borda
2011.04.13: In the pussycats' den - silenced by a newspaper
2011.04.13: Into the pussycats' den
2011.04.13: Mahler unremembered
2011.04.12: Breaking: Brazil crisis conductor cancels foreign concerts
2011.04.12: Sad tidings: death of a master sound restorer
2011.04.12: Do you tweet in concerts?
2011.04.12: Brazil - now the conductor gets dumped by his mentor
2011.04.11: Daniel Catan's sad death - the official statement
2011.04.11: Breaking: Domingo composer found dead
2011.04.11: Decca breaks a record - it signs a British artist
2011.04.11: Domingo's in Japan despite new shocks ... but will the Met go?
2011.04.11: A last glimpse of Yakov
2011.04.10: Brazil - the youth orchestra protest
2011.04.10: Well, hello Baby Flo
2011.04.10: Beethoven or Mahler - which did more to change your life?
2011.04.10: Brazil concert chaos - here's the video, and the official version
2011.04.09: Brazil - chaos at the concert
2011.04.08: Zubin conducts three ensembles for Japan
2011.04.08: Patrick Stewart and Silk go to meet the man (but he's not there)
2011.04.07: The Classic Brits - it just gets better and better
2011.04.07: Now Brazil's top dancers boycott the orchestra
2011.04.07: Detroit musicians back at work today - first pictures
2011.04.07: Exxxclusive offer: free tickets to country house opera
2011.04.07: The 10 fastest dying industries
2011.04.07: My neologism of the year
2011.04.07: Asian orchestra signs major record deal
2011.04.06: Artists who fool you on record
2011.04.06: Latest defections in Brazil
2011.04.06: Another record fund-raiser for Japan, but where are the classics?
2011.04.06: They think this is the next Gorecki
2011.04.06: What to play in a brand new hall
2011.04.05: Breaking: Bayreuth loses its next Ring director in 3-D row
2011.04.05: Do you really want to watch a concert in the cinema?
2011.04.05: Let's buy classical music for Japan
2011.04.05: Surprise, surprise: Vienna and Salzburg are all kissy-kissy again
2011.04.05: A word in the ear of my pals in the Phil
2011.04.04: News just in: Brazil's biggest pianist boycotts the national orchestra
2011.04.04: Detroit strike over?
2011.04.04: These are your Artists of the Decade
2011.04.04: Salzburg Festival hit by Gaddafi allegations
2011.04.03: Another Sony scoop
2011.04.03: Say hello to baby Dude
2011.04.03: Breaking: now Buenos Aires fires half its orchestra
2011.04.02: You protest? I sang it first!
2011.04.02: Brazil - the boycott begins
2011.04.01: Slipped Disc goes zooming up the charts
2011.04.01: Hallelujah! the new Glenn Gould laureate is....
2011.04.01: Breaking: Welsh National Opera grabs former English boss
2011.04.01: Strange goings-on in the Cambridge cloisters
2011.04.01: How to play a Beethoven cycle in 2012
2011.04.01: Ready for some more Arts Council fudge?
2011.03.31: Is this a good time to abuse Jews?
2011.03.31: Brazil - latest on the musician sackings
2011.03.31: Seriously, isn't it time we lightened up?
2011.03.31: Breaking: Police arrest major violin dealer
2011.03.31: The Arts Council - an orchestral condemnation
2011.03.31: A vote of confidence?
2011.03.31: Very good news from Chicago
2011.03.30: News just in: 44 musicians sacked in Rio
2011.03.30: More tales from Arts Council's cutting floor
2011.03.30: First film by Covent Garden's new opera boss
2011.03.30: Stupidest comment so far on Arts Council cuts
2011.03.30: Breaking: Liz Forgan refuses to debate cuts live with Lebrecht
2011.03.30: Brazil - half the orchestra to be fired
2011.03.30: More insider dealing at the Arts Council
2011.03.30: Arts Council England - the Barbican scandal
2011.03.30: Arts Council fudges its orchestras
2011.03.30: Arts Council England - penalising excellence
2011.03.30: News Break: Arts Council England - first word of the big grants
2011.03.30: Breaking: Sony steal glittering prize from DG
2011.03.29: News just in: Carnegie in a tangle
2011.03.29: Arts Council England - a broken bucket
2011.03.29: Sony swoop for EMI piano star
2011.03.29: Exclusive: record studio for sale - this time for real
2011.03.29: Sad news: Robert Tear is dead
2011.03.28: From the Arts Council's rubbish bin
2011.03.28: Would you buy a used Monet from this man?
2011.03.28: Wanted: someone to play violin on the Titanic
2011.03.24: Brian Cox turns irrational
2011.03.24: Viv gives again - a cool £8.2 million to the arts
2011.03.24: What Wim Wenders may be planning for Bayreuth
2011.03.24: Breaking: Domingo refuses to sing until Buenos Aires settles musicians strike
2011.03.23: Elizabeth Taylor - the music in her life - now with video
2011.03.23: Swiss, Balts and brass bands - so this is Easter at Kings?
2011.03.23: Hot tip: French star dumps partner, jumps ship
2011.03.23: Another case of musician abuse?
2011.03.22: By popular request - more composers on the catwalk
2011.03.22: Breaking: Hot composer joins model agency
2011.03.22: Breaking: Composer joins model agency
2011.03.22: Exclusive: Biggest archive of composer manuscripts to be sold
2011.03.22: Menuhin moves to Beijing - and Barbirolli gives up the ghost
2011.03.21: A week late, Kreizberg receives a first print obituary
2011.03.21: Breaking: Levine's in trouble
2011.03.21: Brazil - an American union flexes its muscle
2011.03.21: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger - the cast, at last (and it's luxury)
2011.03.21: Free concert tickets with hot cello
2011.03.21: London orchestra night for Japan victims
2011.03.21: The things you really want to know - ask Anna
2011.03.21: The Killing - a symphony from the north
2011.03.18: Joyce DiDonato stays a Virgin for the long haul
2011.03.18: Breaking: Royal Opera picks Dane to succeed Elaine
2011.03.18: Emmanuelle returns
2011.03.18: Brazil warned: your reputation is at stake
2011.03.17: Brazil furore - latest verdicts
2011.03.17: Breaking: Andre Previn agrees to support Japan aid
2011.03.17: A case of musician abuse?
2011.03.17: A missive from Miss Nilsson
2011.03.17: John Zorn leads $100 Columbia benefit for Japan
2011.03.16: Yakov Kreizberg - more tributes from musicians
2011.03.16: Orchestra announces Japan solidarity concert
2011.03.16: The musical flight from Japan - and the conductor who doesn't want to know
2011.03.16: Yakov Kreizberg tributes
2011.03.15: Shocking news - conductor dies at 51
2011.03.15: Breaking: Detroit musicians lawyer indicted on ballet theft charge
2011.03.15: More gloom - another Tokyo shutdown
2011.03.15: More musical gloom from Japan
2011.03.15: Musical gloom from Japan
2011.03.15: Brazil - orchestra bosses establish own blog
2011.03.15: No more Classical Brits
2011.03.14: Golijov flunks on the Dude
2011.03.14: Berlin Philharmonic confirms Japan tour
2011.03.14: Brazil - the judge's assessment
2011.03.14: Kurt Masur faces musician rage in San Francisco
2011.03.13: News just in: BBC orchestra abandons tour of Japan
2011.03.13: How's your opera house performing? Dresden's doing better.
2011.03.13: Brazil in a nutshell - so what do conductors think?
2011.03.12: Brazil crisis - now Kurt Masur gets involved
2011.03.11: Tonight's concerts in the Tokyo earthquake zone
2011.03.11: Brazil - the oboist's tale
2011.03.11: Musicians caught in Japan quake
2011.03.11: Message to Brazil from the German orchestras: stop it, right now
2011.03.11: Watchmaker takes Karajan cash
2011.03.10: Brazil - cri de coeur aux musiciens du monde
2011.03.10: Brazil Facebook protest - letter from one of the judges
2011.03.10: London arts cuts - seriously bad news
2011.03.10: Rally today for Rio's threatened musicians
2011.03.10: News just in: Brazil orchestra swoops on British musicians
2011.03.09: Diva gets engaged
2011.03.09: Make your string quartet recital an Olympic event
2011.03.09: Brazil Facebook protest - the burning questions
2011.03.09: Gergiev's Tchaikovsky competition - not so clean, after all?
2011.03.08: Brazilian Facebook protest - the conductor explains
2011.03.08: Gergiev cleans up the Tchaikovsky act (hmm, let's wait and see)
2011.03.08: The Dude drops a dud
2011.03.08: Brazil Facebook protest - another jury member quits
2011.03.07: Rio musicians chief appeals for fair play
2011.03.07: Lady Geo-Geo burns another bridge
2011.03.07: Star violinist blanks Brazil auditions
2011.03.07: Salzburg offers licensed brothel as new festival attraction
2011.03.07: Musicians pile on support for Brazil Facebook protest
2011.03.06: Facebook audition jury named and shamed
2011.03.06: Facebook protest prompts orchestral blackout
2011.03.06: English music only - foreigners need not apply
2011.03.04: Where musicians are seen and not heard
2011.03.04: David Cameron on anti-semitism - the speech they don't want you to hear
2011.03.04: So you can't wait to see Galliano's new show?
2011.03.03: Who's in the Boston line-up?
2011.03.02: Breaking news: Levine quits Boston
2011.03.02: Subbing for Levine
2011.03.02: Two good orchestra calls
2011.03.02: Galliano latest
2011.03.02: John Galliano - the two cultural issues
2011.03.01: At last, a lifetime award for real achievement
2011.03.01: Latest writing on the wall
2011.03.01: Heifetz's last disciple?
2011.02.28: Suze Rotolo - the everlasting cover
2011.02.28: Death of a great jazz trumpeter
2011.02.28: The brains at the top of the record business
2011.02.28: Why Arsenal and Spurs are more thrilling than the Berlin Philharmonic
2011.02.27: Kafka Prize winner dies
2011.02.27: Bach goes Sephardic - with super-rare Domingo video
2011.02.26: Levine in Boston - it's gone beyond a joke
2011.02.26: Lenny's sidekick is gone
2011.02.25: Superquick recovery on the Sheffield Cure
2011.02.25: Music from Egypt - coming your way
2011.02.25: Racist incident stuns Vienna singers
2011.02.25: It's crunch time at the Liceu
2011.02.25: Oh, how those Mills do grind
2011.02.25: Death of a maskanda master
2011.02.24: Hot news of Mahler's third
2011.02.24: VW alert
2011.02.23: Rattle's Mahler Third - or Mahler's?
2011.02.22: Breaking: free classical downloads from major auction house
2011.02.22: A sticky proposition
2011.02.22: How to botch a great recording
2011.02.21: Garbo's press officer dies
2011.02.21: Forget the new Radiohead album - it's the Greenwood movie you need to hear
2011.02.21: The importance of naming Ernest
2011.02.20: Who'd be a cellist?
2011.02.20: Anna Nicole - seriously, now
2011.02.18: Vienna pulls a long face
2011.02.18: Apart from that, Anna Nicole, did you enjoy the show?
2011.02.17: Breaking: Liverpool faces 20 percent orchestra cut
2011.02.17: Going for a thong
2011.02.17: Conductor unwell, feeling much better
2011.02.17: February - a month of opportunity
2011.02.17: Breaking news: Oslo in raid on Liverpool star
2011.02.16: Peter and Joan on the same sheet
2011.02.15: Dame Joan gets a royal send-off at the Abbey
2011.02.06: Miserable bitcheries at the Telegraph
2011.02.06: More from Brigitte and Placido
2011.02.04: Curious claim by Arts Council chiefs - ooh, we nearly quit!
2011.02.04: Violinist stars in Brokeback man's movie
2011.02.04: Wake up and smell the whisky
2011.02.03: EMI - who's lining up? And who's going to stop them?
2011.02.03: Brando's lover, the greatest flat hunter in screen history, is dead.
2011.02.03: Depressing news from the north
2011.02.02: Scots, please note: he never played for England
2011.02.02: The future for EMI - a lesson from Cadbury's
2011.02.02: Where's Pappano going?
2011.02.02: Mahler comes to Wales
2011.02.01: EMI changes Hands
2011.02.01: Who needs these overpriced soloists?
2011.02.01: The night Margaret Price sang mezzo
2011.01.31: Sad death of a great leader
2011.01.31: Breaking: Big Canadian coup at Scottish orchestra
2011.01.30: He's not good enough for New York (but we'll tell you about him, anyway)
2011.01.29: Two musical deaths - Milton Babbitt and Dame Margaret Price
2011.01.28: Auschwitz violinist in new stage drama
2011.01.28: Find me a concertmaster
2011.01.28: Question for the Culture Secretary
2011.01.28: What Joshua Bell does when his venue cancels
2011.01.27: Cellist bounces back from prolonged shoulder paralysis
2011.01.27: Big one for Brigitte
2011.01.27: Bad day for burying good news
2011.01.27: Breaking news: Menuhin Foundation goes bust
2011.01.26: Breaking news: Giant label rises from the ashes
2011.01.26: Bernd Eichinger is dead
2011.01.26: Philharmonic proposes civil partnership to New York Times
2011.01.26: Pause for a poet murdered in the Moscow bomb
2011.01.25: How to write a good symphony
2011.01.25: Exclusive: Arts Council banned from Covent Garden
2011.01.24: Want to get on record? Chris Craker's back...
2011.01.24: Four questions for Dame Liz
2011.01.23: 'Like a scurvy politician' - a compelling King Lear from the RSC
2011.01.21: Happy birthday, Placido. We're trashing your legacy.
2011.01.21: Trouble at mill for Elgar's northern lass
2011.01.21: How Mahler invented musical America
2011.01.20: The opera Mahler never wrote
2011.01.20: Music giant makes desperate pitch for kiddie star
2011.01.20: Alan Gilbert - the first dissenting voices
2011.01.19: My soloist is a witch
2011.01.19: Why is it always music teachers? Maybe it isn't...
2011.01.18: Man in a kilt is the new Handel master
2011.01.18: Dude bones up on his Elgar
2011.01.17: My soprano's bigger than yours
2011.01.17: What music really does to your brain
2011.01.17: MDs are seeking new MD
2011.01.16: Conductor dies during funeral march - an update and a warning
2011.01.14: Conductor dies during funeral march
2011.01.14: Ever tried opera-oke?
2011.01.14: Breaking news: Another wheel comes off the big machine
2011.01.13: Free downloads - a paradox
2011.01.13: Free classical downloads - results and conclusions
2011.01.13: Breaking news: Brian Dickie is coming home
2011.01.12: It's not the leaving of Liverpool...
2011.01.12: Breaking moulds in the agency business
2011.01.12: Plus an arm and a leg
2011.01.11: Ilan heads north
2011.01.11: Yet another EMI v-p goes overboard
2011.01.11: Yet another EMI v-p goes overboard
2011.01.10: Oh no, Rolando
2011.01.09: Mahler's fifth symphony goes online
2011.01.08: Yannick to Chicago: I got no time for you
2011.01.07: Breaking news: Graham Sheffield quits Hong Kong
2011.01.07: Ring rumours #379 - Katie wants Wim
2011.01.07: Bad Boy Organist: what happened next
2011.01.06: Three monkeys in a record store
2011.01.06: Cardiff singer shrinks
2011.01.05: Ten music predictions for 2011
2011.01.05: How green is your orchestra?
2011.01.04: Excavating Alma Mahler (oh, not again)
2011.01.03: The Maestro and Madonna - it must be the date from hell
2011.01.03: Last two free classical downloads
2011.01.02: Free classical download #14 for a Sunday morning
2011.01.01: Australian pianist dies
2011.01.01: Fifth label joins free classical downloads
2010.12.31: The secret torments of Emil Gilels
2010.12.31: Classical music website gets taken down
2010.12.31: It Ain't Necessarily So
2010.12.30: Three fiddlers in the drink
2010.12.30: What's wrong with Chicago?
2010.12.30: Cuts announced to German orchestras
2010.12.30: It's Rattle's Dude vs Thielemann - German TV's New Year reality show
2010.12.30: Low down and dirty - free classical download #11
2010.12.29: What Franz Welser-Möst would die for
2010.12.29: A world premiere gift from Slipped Disc
2010.12.28: Mahler as you've never heard him before
2010.12.27: Ten music scoops of 2010
2010.12.27: Here's where it gets serious - free classical download #8
2010.12.26: Worst press release of 2010
2010.12.26: The world's most romantic concerto - free classical download #7
2010.12.25: And now for something completely different - free download #6
2010.12.24: Greetings from Mahler's town of Jihlava (Iglau)
2010.12.24: Then the conductor pulled a revolver and pointed it at the audience...
2010.12.24: End of Chopin year - free classical download #5
2010.12.23: Dude to go on Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2010.12.23: So how many is too many? Some additional evidence
2010.12.23: Whatever became of Respighi?
2010.12.23: Breaking news: Czech Phil takes new chief from its dark past
2010.12.22: Why is it always music teachers?
2010.12.22: Breaking news: Abbey Road saved forever
2010.12.22: More labels join free classical downloads on Slipped Disc
2010.12.22: So how many is too many?
2010.12.21: Breaking news: Anti-Tory opera to open in Cheltenham
2010.12.21: Dutch play 4'33" on prime time TV
2010.12.21: You gotta hear this - free classical download #2
2010.12.21: Why the BBC won't play 4'33"
2010.12.20: Free classical download #1 - exclusive to Slipped Disc
2010.12.20: Spare a thought...
2010.12.17: Breaking news: Free classical downloads from this site
2010.12.15: Slightly less bad hair in Birmingham
2010.12.14: Have yourself a merry multiculture
2010.12.14: Breaking news: first woman Keeper at Royal Academy
2010.12.13: There goes another music man
2010.12.13: Sorting out the fluffy fiddle stars
2010.12.13: Bad hair day in Birmingham
2010.12.11: How the Turner Prize and the X Factor are allies in anti-art
2010.12.11: Two centenarians on video
2010.12.11: Anna Mahler on live radio
2010.12.11: Death of a terrorised resistant
2010.12.10: Another call for Arts Council demolition
2010.12.10: Break a neck?
2010.12.10: A fond memory of Hugues Cuénod as a young tenor
2010.12.08: Imagine. It's 30 years today since Lennon was killed
2010.12.08: It's Mahler day upstate tomorrow
2010.12.07: Chart-toppers of London 2012
2010.12.07: World's oldest tenor gives up
2010.12.05: The one that Mahler dropped
2010.12.03: Breaking news: Mikhail Pletnev cleared of sex charges
2010.12.03: The case for Alma Mahler
2010.12.02: Major J S Bach investment disclosed
2010.12.02: Two resurrections on the same night
2010.12.02: A Hanukah story of interfaith harmony
2010.12.01: On the book trail, intersecting with Alex Ross
2010.11.30: Sad news just in: the German tenor Peter Hofmann is dead
2010.11.29: Richest man in modern music
2010.11.26: Soprano found dead after morbid Facebook post
2010.11.26: Let's hear it from the paper shufflers
2010.11.26: Does he know what it's worth?
2010.11.25: How to save the Arts Council
2010.11.25: Journalist announces job change in gobbledygook
2010.11.24: All the rage in Virginia
2010.11.24: News just in: Midori loses her manager
2010.11.24: MPs to slash Mahler?
2010.11.16: Scoop from the book tour: Syracuse to erect Mahler memorial
2010.11.08: Why not to be a conductor
2010.11.06: Vale, Shirley Verrett
2010.11.05: A reward for real merit
2010.11.05: Winners and losers at EMI
2010.11.05: Vienna Philharmonic loses player in Japan
2010.11.04: Who's the next Arts Council chair?
2010.11.04: Top UK music blogs (all genres) from Wikio, November 2010
2010.11.04: The last sound Shostakovich wanted to hear
2010.11.04: Just when you thought it could get no worse
2010.11.03: From the absurd to the ridiculous
2010.11.02: What the House of Commons culture committee wanted to know
2010.11.02: Classical pods sprout at the BBC
2010.11.02: The state of classical music, late 2010
2010.11.01: A Writer, Defined by Occupation
2010.10.31: Has the Arts Council gone to war with the arts?
2010.10.31: Feeling blue? See a doctor in Turku
2010.10.31: Mahler Chambler Orchestra goes on tour - without a note of Mahler's
2010.10.27: Does the orchestra have a 21st century future?
2010.10.27: Does the orchestra have a 21st century future?
2010.10.25: You'll never walkman alone, again
2010.10.25: How much do we pay string quartets?
2010.10.22: Public Lending Right is saved
2010.10.22: Mr Stephen Sondheim submits two anagrams
2010.10.22: Two heads must roll to save the arts
2010.10.21: Best composer anagram, ever
2010.10.20: Arts Council England - a catastrophic failure of judgement and nerve
2010.10.20: How to cut the arts - the Gomps way
2010.10.20: ...So Naxos hire cool COO from iTunes
2010.10.19: The silence of Dame Liz
2010.10.19: DG snatch ex-Naxos man to boot up sluggish backlist
2010.10.19: Sad passing of great voice teacher
2010.10.15: News just in: Verdict in the oboe case
2010.10.15: New baton in Vienna
2010.10.15: In defence of the X-factor
2010.10.15: How musicians get fired, or not
2010.10.14: Breaking news: major move for Deutsche Grammophon
2010.10.14: How the X Factor manufactures musical porn
2010.10.12: It's Pavarotti's birthday, someone said
2010.10.12: BBC man disses Dame Joan
2010.10.11: News just in: Joan Sutherland has died
2010.10.07: Happy birthday, who?
2010.10.07: Guess who's gonna be Daddy Dude?
2010.10.06: Katie won't go to Israel, after all
2010.10.06: And a shaft of joy from London
2010.10.06: Latest gloom from the Low Country
2010.10.05: News reports: Wagner goes to Israel
2010.10.05: Germany cuts orchestras - v-e-r-y slowly
2010.10.05: Diva takes a dip with nothing but her rings on
2010.10.04: Another musician in the bath
2010.10.04: Breaking news: Deal of the century is off
2010.09.29: An agent's place is in the wrong
2010.09.29: Raging Ricky tells it like it is (yeah, right)
2010.09.29: EMI sign a new pop picker
2010.09.17: It's chop-chop for the Dutch - 22% arts cuts
2010.09.17: Birmingham breaks its Mahler jinx with a perfect 8
2010.09.16: More tricks from the record labels
2010.09.16: Whistle-blower: Sony wants a pound of flesh
2010.09.15: More shenanigans alleged at the Solti
2010.09.15: What really goes on at your agent's
2010.09.15: New talent on the fast track
2010.09.13: Another Venezuelan takes up the beat
2010.09.13: Strange goings-on in the Solti legacy
2010.09.08: Badenheim 1939 moves to the stage
2010.09.08: Another artist takes a walk
2010.09.06: Tip for the top: Russian takes Berlin
2010.09.06: In Venezuela the colour red has been stripped of beauty and power
2010.09.06: His opera launched the modern world
2010.09.05: This month's political pin-up
2010.09.03: Opera-tors of the world unite
2010.09.03: Sony ratchets up Lang Lang gadget war
2010.09.02: The thing Lang Lang cannot mention
2010.09.01: Watch where the money's moving
2010.08.31: Sony snaps up Vienna Philharmonic
2010.08.30: Two looming big holes in British opera
2010.08.30: How did he get to Carnegie Hall?
2010.08.27: Breaking news: Duda's on the move again
2010.08.26: You've read the warnings about Ryanair. Now it's official
2010.08.23: The pianist who changed his name twice
2010.08.22: Why Mahler? an orchestral player reflects
2010.08.20: Viral agent gets rapped by record label
2010.08.20: Leaked e-mail: how an agent can make your life hell
2010.08.19: Simon's coming soon to a movie house near you. Maybe
2010.08.17: Breaking news: Joyce DiDonato quits agency
2010.08.17: Rolando offers a refund
2010.08.17: Can this record save lives?
2010.08.16: How to cope with rejection
2010.08.11: Eugene Onegin, seen from the Royal Box
2010.08.11: So where did your summer go?
2010.08.11: Charlie's gift
2010.08.09: I could have been Philip Langridge
2010.08.08: Now playing at the Proms: Happy birthday, sweet sixteen
2010.08.06: Breaking news: Bryn Terfel in festival crash
2010.08.06: Gergiev's mixed doubles
2010.08.05: Guess what? Another composer in the bath...
2010.08.05: Three more composers in a bathtub - this time, no clothes
2010.08.05: Breaking news: Pletnev pulls out
2010.08.04: The most composers you have ever seen in a bathtub
2010.08.04: No more Sunny boy
2010.08.03: New boss at the Bolshoi - just like the movie
2010.08.03: Boston Pops beat man moves to the Beeb
2010.08.03: Mahler in the Congo
2010.08.02: Mahler's busiest week
2010.08.01: Want to know what really went down at the Sydney Opera?
2010.07.28: If it's Thursday, Why Mahler? is in Harrogate
2010.07.27: Playing through the pain
2010.07.26: Linda's being very Brava once again
2010.07.26: Marilyn Horne sings My Way
2010.07.25: A quality glitch on BBC Proms
2010.07.23: Some gentle arts brain-twisters for a summer's day
2010.07.22: A great singer with Alzheimer's
2010.07.22: Now Sir Colin crashes out
2010.07.21: Farewell to another trailblazing tenor
2010.07.20: Another VP overboard at EMI Classics
2010.07.19: Next in line for a top US job
2010.07.18: What does it take to manage an orchestra?
2010.07.16: Should you go to The Concert?
2010.07.16: Desperately seeking Gustav
2010.07.15: Dark horse wins Radio 4
2010.07.15: More tributes to Charles Mackerras
2010.07.15: He achieved beyond the dreams of great conductors
2010.07.12: Four go copycatting
2010.07.09: Chernobyl kids embraced by UK orchestra
2010.07.09: Music and Beyond
2010.06.25: A test of BBC objectivity
2010.06.25: The Record Doctor opens heatwave clinic
2010.06.24: How I missed out on a Mahler orgy
2010.06.23: Please can we have our crucifixion back?
2010.06.22: The austerity Budget - good for the arts?
2010.06.22: What are arts funders for?
2010.06.18: Breaking news: New boss (again) at EMI
2010.06.18: What's Ben doing on the box?
2010.06.17: Think before you fly
2010.06.17: Bruno's last babe
2010.06.16: Late thoughts of a passionate man
2010.06.16: Deutsche goes German again
2010.06.15: The Philadelphia Story - have they got the right ending?
2010.06.15: The sadness of being Ernest
2010.06.13: David Milliband's sperm count
2010.06.13: A fan letter to Dave Hill
2010.06.11: Do you know the way to Cadaques?
2010.06.10: New Arts Council chief
2010.06.09: Breaking news: Maestro quits Manchester
2010.06.09: Does opera have a future? erm....
2010.06.08: Holier than wow!
2010.06.02: Breaking news: Universal cleans out classical stable
2010.06.02: Music bosses in court
2010.06.02: One of the best
2010.05.31: Wallander goes to Gaza
2010.05.30: Germany's Singing Nun?
2010.05.28: Artists I'd Like to Kick - 3
2010.05.27: Tom Cruise introduces Melvyn Bragg
2010.05.26: Artists I'd Like to Kick - the second list
2010.05.26: Artists I'd like to kick
2010.05.25: Close-season signings
2010.05.25: Lies, damned lies and... record charts
2010.05.24: Who's the next Abbado?
2010.05.23: Getting to know Angela Merkin
2010.05.18: Adieu to the devoted widow
2010.05.17: Dustin Hoffman and Anthony Hopkins to star in my Song
2010.05.15: How to Lose the World Cup
2010.05.14: Finishing touches
2010.05.14: Find me a coat-hanger
2010.05.13: Six ways for Cameron-Clegg to please the arts
2010.05.13: Another civil partnership
2010.05.12: New Culture Secretary with Olympian aims
2010.05.12: Last orders for the ladies who lunch
2010.05.06: Free Mahler
2010.05.04: Two Rumanian losses
2010.04.23: Mahler 2-for-1 - the supermarket concert
2010.04.22: So cheap it cannot be legal
2010.04.22: New face of the BBC Proms
2010.04.21: Ashkenazy, the reel-time rerun
2010.04.21: Mariss misses out on Vienna
2010.04.20: It's parachute time again at EMI
2010.04.20: Grounded in New York?
2010.04.19: Chaos theory
2010.04.18: Armenian genocide enters the concert hall
2010.04.16: The next political flashpoint
2010.04.16: Who's the most popular American composer, alive or dead?
2010.04.14: The Deutsche and the Art of Love - a Slipped Disc exclusive
2010.04.13: So how's your agent doing?
2010.04.12: Why do newspapers never learn?
2010.04.11: Why buy a newspaper?
2010.04.09: Malcolm McLaren - the Mahler connection
2010.04.04: More disturbances at the Wigmore Hall
2010.04.02: What are you paying for music lessons?
2010.03.26: Does Edinburgh know what it's getting?
2010.03.26: Believe what you like
2010.03.25: No more Holy Molys
2010.03.23: Lament for Lady Walton
2010.03.22: Lang Lang gets a partner
2010.03.22: The war has ended at Bayreuth
2010.03.21: Waltzing off with an everlasting smile
2010.03.19: So who's slashing artist fees?
2010.03.07: A Very Serious Jew
2010.03.06: News just in: Philip Langridge has died
2010.03.05: How critics make up their minds
2010.03.04: Breaking news: English National Opera goes bilingual
2010.03.02: There may be no votes in it, but -
2010.03.02: Classical transfer moves - the latest
2010.03.01: More about the Dude's move
2010.03.01: Busy day for record morticians
2010.03.01: Breaking news: Dudamel jumps ship
2010.03.01: Breaking news: Dudamel quits
2010.02.26: Last word on Abbey Road
2010.02.24: Karajan's ears, RIP
2010.02.23: Discounting for Domingo
2010.02.22: Abbey Road - not for sale, after all
2010.02.21: Learn to play the Lang Lang way
2010.02.19: Why Mahler? at Europe's biggest arts centre
2010.02.19: Abbey Road - first bids are in
2010.02.18: Abbey Road update
2010.02.17: What's really happening at Abbey Road
2010.02.16: One Abbey Road for sale
2010.02.16: Two new jobs
2010.02.16: Two new jobs - and in the right hands
2010.02.15: Whatever happened to Gavin Bryars?
2010.02.14: Mahler - what conductors tell me
2010.02.12: Last composer standing - the real rankings
2010.02.12: Last Composer Standing - the results
2010.02.11: Last composer standing - it's the rising clarinet
2010.02.10: Last composer standing - guess who's top now
2010.02.05: Last composer standing - more shocks and spills
2010.02.05: So who took an axe to your piano?
2010.02.04: Promises, promises... and a prospect of Bliss
2010.02.03: Barenboim jumps down and bows out
2010.02.03: Last composer standing - who is really the most performed?
2010.02.02: New twist on classical record stats
2010.02.02: What Lang Lang did next
2010.02.01: What to do when a conductor throws up
2010.02.01: Classical numbers - where it hurts most
2010.01.29: Barenboim - the waggon rolls
2010.01.29: The sun shines in Australia
2010.01.28: More concert disturbances
2010.01.26: Permission to listen? And to share what I feel?
2010.01.21: Is your music really kosher?
2010.01.20: This fiddler comes with an organic farming certificate
2010.01.17: Why I'm going on the fiddle
2010.01.17: Why I'm going on the fiddle
2010.01.15: Why Mahler?
2010.01.10: Putting the new Chagall in context
2010.01.08: In the eye of the storm - Chagall's lost crucifixion revealed
2010.01.03: Best recital of the year, so far
2010.01.03: I need music, and I need it now
2009.12.11: Go on then, pop my pistols
2009.12.09: The alternative Christmas number one
2009.12.08: Out with the count
2009.12.07: Chewing up the critics
2009.11.27: Who knows best in Puccini?
2009.11.26: A squirm at the opera
2009.11.24: A death in Haydn Year
2009.11.24: A Serious Man? You gotta be joking...
2009.11.24: A Serious Man? You gotta be joking...
2009.11.24: A Serious Man? You gotta be joking...
2009.11.19: Last Composer Standing - the retro edition
2009.11.18: Unsung premiere
2009.11.17: Last composer standing - the results
2009.11.15: Last Composer Standing - the top three
2009.11.14: Late contenders in the Last Composer Standing vote
2009.11.13: Last composer standing
2009.11.12: You want to know what's wrong with the Met?
2009.11.03: The Record Doctor is back
2009.11.03: Other side of the Dude
2009.10.29: Fun use of a free newspaper
2009.10.28: The snowman cometh
2009.10.23: Emily is a lousy composer, I'm so glad to say.
2009.10.22: Opera becomes an app
2009.10.21: Pots and kettles
2009.10.19: tweeto ergo sum
2009.10.08: Playing politics with British arts
2009.10.07: My best singing pupil, ever, ever, ever
2009.10.05: What happens to the arts when a newspaper goes free?
2009.10.02: Prime minister lays into arts chiefs
2009.09.30: Latest from Latvia
2009.09.29: How Larrocha created Pavarotti
2009.09.27: Thinkin' bout Alicia
2009.09.25: New Strads for Old
2009.09.21: In a critical condition (6)
2009.09.18: Macabre? No, it's a metaphor for cruelty and financial crash
2009.09.14: Beethoven does the Beatles
2009.09.12: Some more super stats
2009.09.11: Vienna bewilders the Proms
2009.09.10: More cause for mourning, down under
2009.09.03: Why does everything have to be God vs Dawkins?
2009.09.02: Barenboim's cognitive dissonance
2009.08.31: It's Miller tonight - and nothing lite about it
2009.08.30: Religion and the ideal orchestra
2009.08.28: Some more good numbers
2009.08.27: The Russians are coming ... and the Chinese
2009.08.26: At last, a premier assessment
2009.08.25: Not in an Age and a half
2009.08.24: Taking issue with Downes' Syndrome
2009.08.24: Not in an Age
2009.08.23: Sad news from Australia
2009.08.21: Why can't we mention the G-word?
2009.08.19: What will happen before the music stops?
2009.08.18: What's a good doctor like you doing on the opera stage?
2009.08.10: Vladimir Ashkenazy: My Life in the KGB
2009.08.07: Another silenced voice
2009.08.05: Some forgotten musical victims
2009.08.04: The Kaiser's not waltzing
2009.08.03: Goodnight to the dodos
2009.07.27: Hilary's next
2009.07.26: Another view of Mahler's Ninth
2009.07.21: Night thoughts on Mahler's Ninth
2009.07.20: Student abuse in music - someone speaks out, at last
2009.06.11: Average age 32: the classical audience in Paris
2009.06.05: Musical chaos at the BBC
2009.06.04: Oranges are not the only fruit
2009.06.03: Schiff runs aground
2009.05.27: Hilary turns the tables
2009.05.21: And the winner is...
2009.05.19: The spirit of a place
2009.05.17: Deconstructing Eurovision
2009.04.29: A final Balfour Declaration
2009.04.28: Bob's blowing way off course
2009.04.22: Twitter the opera
2009.04.02: Worth seeing twice?
2009.03.24: Smackdown or touchdown?
2009.03.24: Free Bernard - he's out now!
2009.03.18: She got plenty of nuttin'
2009.03.17: Bess, you is my woman now
2009.03.15: Nobody sings like she can
2009.03.13: Shrinking Jenufa
2009.03.11: Duda here, Duda there, and the NY Phil go east
2009.03.09: Michael Ignatieff: An open letter
2009.03.05: Free Bernard - the campaign grows
2009.03.04: It rhymes with Zinfandel
2009.03.03: There goes another one
2009.03.02: The final reckoning
2009.02.27: Cecilia, they're breaking your heart
2009.02.26: The subcritical mass goes supercritical
2009.02.25: Kate Winslet is innocent, OK?
2009.02.23: Kate Winslet should be afraid
2009.02.21: As personal as a parking ticket
2009.02.20: Late greats
2009.02.19: Silent deaths at Decca
2009.02.18: Happy days are here again
2009.02.17: Happy Haitink Hour
2009.02.17: A better Decca story
2009.02.11: Decca: The word from Herbert Breslin
2009.02.10: Symphonies without end
2009.02.09: Decca, the epilogue
2009.02.05: Decca's dead, who's next?
2009.02.05: Worth the wait?
2009.02.03: Not so eagerly awaited?
2009.02.03: Playboy? It's not a game
2009.02.02: Boheme is snowed under
2009.01.28: Dead City dies again
2009.01.16: John Mortimer is dead
2009.01.13: I've been Kindled
2009.01.12: Some good comes from the New York Philharmonic
2009.01.05: Betty Freeman, RIP
2008.12.22: Today, the world changed
2008.12.21: All's quiet at the NY Philharmonic
2008.12.18: The player who forgot his place
2008.12.04: The Record Doctor's surgery is open now
2008.12.03: Does Ma'am love Brahms?
2008.12.01: Stand by for the u-turn
2008.11.28: Misusing the holocaust
2008.10.17: What would Aristotle have made of it?
2008.10.16: All the best things in life aren't free
2008.10.13: The man who said **** to TV
2008.10.10: Radio vacant
2008.09.24: Catch a falling star
2008.09.09: Strange radio noises in Holland
2008.08.29: Franco tells all
2008.08.27: In a critical condition (5)
2008.08.08: Getting brought to book
2008.08.06: In a critical condition (4)
2008.08.01: Brigitte Fassbender tells it how it really is
2008.07.20: Natalie Dessay - as you've never heard her before
2008.07.19: In a critical condition (3)
2008.07.18: In a critical condition (2)
2008.07.17: In a critical condition (1)
2008.07.13: New kids on the blog
2008.07.06: All that glitters is not Gelb
2008.07.02: More eminent members
2008.06.26: Candide camera
2008.06.23: One of the best
2008.06.20: Missing persons alert
2008.06.18: Lorraine and the gentlemen's clubs
2008.06.17: Berlin cover-up
2008.06.11: The Lead from L. A.
2008.06.08: Who dares, wins
2008.04.09: A collection is not just for life
2008.03.26: Alfred and the fruitcakes
2008.03.18: No prizes for coming third
2008.02.27: Pistol-whip victim's support fund
2008.02.24: Smart Korea Move?
2008.02.06: Beside such misanthropy, antisemitism is almost incidental
2008.02.03: Can a bad man create good music?
2008.01.29: Goodbye, Columbus
2008.01.09: Lest she be forgotten
2007.12.24: Last orders
2007.12.21: The sincerest form of flattery
2007.12.20: A winner for all time
2007.12.18: A job designed for doormats
2007.12.16: All bets are off
2007.11.20: More on the missing concerto
2007.11.15: orchestra of the 21st century?
2007.10.28: Panic in the Langham Bar
2007.10.24: Blazing a trail
2007.10.18: Here's to a lady who lunched
2007.10.12: A report from the edge
2007.09.18: How to make a happy cellist
2007.09.09: A Snowstorm in the Sahara
2007.08.16: The late and supposedly less great
2007.08.12: whose minimalism is it, anyway?
2007.08.09: Russell Johnson, the best ears on earth
2007.08.08: Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?
2007.07.26: Celebrity struts at Salzburg
2007.07.25: He reached for a dream
2007.07.08: None too bright
2007.06.29: Horror of horrors
2007.06.22: Elgar in the wasteland
2007.06.21: Well done, Al
2007.06.06: If you can't beat them, hire them
2007.05.30: Nowhere to go
2007.05.17: Classical records not in trouble?
2007.05.15: Fantasy classics: the new game
2007.05.10: If this it Thursday, it must be Belgium
2007.05.09: Anybody seen Alberto Vilar?
2007.05.01: A funny thing happened on the way to the Phil
2007.04.19: You read it here first
2007.04.10: LA Law
2007.04.08: Unfiltered noise
2007.03.30: Read this and weep
2007.03.29: Fending off the battering rams
2007.03.25: The wallflower who ran a great label
2007.03.22: Who's been sitting on my bench?
2007.03.21: Launching at the British Library
2007.03.18: more hands than a goddess
2007.03.15: blood on the tracks
2007.03.15: dropping the needle
2007.02.14: Slipped Disc
2007.02.14: Norman Lebrecht
2007.02.13: More Lebrecht
2007.02.12: Contact me

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