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Incentivise giving, pace cuts, halt capital developments: advice to Jeremy Hunt from across the Atlantic

4984 days ago
Guardian MusicThe director of the Carnegie Hall, Clive Gillinson, has written an open letter to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt about how to manage the coming arts cutsHere's some food for thought: an open letter to Jeremy Hunt from Clive Gillinson, who was the resp... more info

John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me

5003 days ago
Guardian MusicAs he gets ready to conduct the Vespers for the 19th time, John Eliot Gardiner explains how it was Monteverdi's masterpiece that made him choose a career in musicMy relationship with Monteverdi goes back to when I was eight. The great French pedago... more info

Arthur Wilson obituary

5012 days ago
Guardian MusicInfluential orchestral trombonist with a smooth, flowing style Arthur Wilson, who has died aged 83, will be remembered as the truly inspirational trombonist of his generation. He was a principal with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the English Chamber... more info

Prom 41: LSO/Gergiev | Classical review

5020 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonBorn exactly a decade apart, Scriabin and Stravinsky were the two composers who in their very different ways led 20th-century Russian music towards modernism. Valery Gergiev's pairing of early Scriabin with early Stravinsky, ... more info

Prom 26 World Orchestra for Peace/Gergiev | Classical review

5031 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonMahler 5 with a side order of Mahler 4: this might sound like the overegging of an already fabulously rich pudding.Particularly for those who had heard the Third Symphony here only the night before. But the Albert Hall was ... more info

Bax catalogue joy: the BBC Proms Archive is go | Tom Service

5063 days ago
Guardian MusicOne of the most revealing classical music resources on the internet is up and runningIt's not just the saving of 6 Music – there's another good news story from the BBC today. The Proms Archive went live earlier today. OK, that may not sound like a ... more info

The Seasons | Classical review

5068 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonThe first of Haydn's two great oratorios dealt with the biblical account of creation; its successor took as its subject the four seasons, drawing on the composer's long memories of the annual rural round and the country life he grew u... more info

Appreciation: Ernest Fleischmann obituary

5076 days ago
Guardian MusicHumphrey Burton writes: From his American perspective, Alan Rich gave Ernest Fleischmann's achievements in California the lion's share (obituary, 16 June), but those who worked with Ernest in the 1960s would argue that his spell with the London Symph... more info

Ernest Fleischmann obituary

5083 days ago
Guardian MusicSingleminded manager of the Los Angeles PhilharmonicMany managing directors of symphony orchestras have flourished quite handsomely ensconced behind a desk, enacting major policy changes in meeting rooms. However, for the three decades that he ran th... more info

Lohengrin | Opera review

5083 days ago
Guardian MusicSymphony Hall, BirminghamNext month, Andris Nelsons makes his debut at Bayreuth, conducting the new production of Lohengrin that opens the festival. The Birmingham audience that has supported Nelsons so well during his first two seasons as the City o... more info

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