The summer hiatus is the time to sample star players of the past and hear how performance styles have changed. The latest release on the Biddulph label, specialists in historic string players, is Nathan Milstein: […]
Ask people about Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year, and you might be told either that he is hands down Britain’s favourite composer or a parochial embarrassment whose music sounds like […]
The Romanian pianist Radu Lupu, who has died at the age of 76, shot to prominence in the UK when he won the Leeds Piano Competition in 1969, giving an acclaimed Wigmore Hall recital in […]
Proms 5 and Prom 6 BBC Philharmonic (18 & 19 July) Omer Meir Wellber conducts two Proms: the first with Cassandra Miller’s new Viola Concerto played by Lawrence Power, the second with the fourth symphonies […]
An undated portrait of the late Romanian pianist Radu Lupu. Lupu died Sunday at age 76 in Lausanne, France. Erich Auerbach/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Erich Auerbach/Getty Images An undated portrait of the late […]
Othmar Schoeck’s song cycles, some with piano, others with instrumental ensemble or full orchestra, represent one of the last great flowerings of the romantic lieder tradition. Outside his native Switzerland at least, his music is […]
An undated portrait of the late Romanian pianist Radu Lupu. Lupu died Sunday at age 76 in Lausanne, France. Erich Auerbach/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Erich Auerbach/Getty Images An undated portrait of the late […]