‘What it means to have a life of practice’: New publication combines Philip Glass Études with essays from his most high-profile listeners
The new book, which pairs the composer’s famed Études with a collection of essays those who identify...
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‘A factory for future stars’: East meets West at the Beijing Music Festival
Colin Clarke journeys East to find out how BMF, under the leadership of Shuang Zou, is bringing its...
'Neither an angry rebel, nor a tragic victim': Excavating the legacy of Fanny Mendelssohn
In Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, a new documentary film released this week, director Sheila Hayman...
Kronberg Academy’s new Casals Forum: ‘a hall in which there is literally no bad seat’
Charlotte Gardner finds out how, with acousticians and architects working in tandem from the...
After rehearsals interrupted by air raids, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine embarks on UK tour
On the eve of the NSOU’s UK tour, Owen Mortimer sits down with the orchestra’s directors to find out...
‘Music lifts the words to a level that speech alone can never reach’ Donald Swann’s Requiem for the Living
Donald Swann's pacifist work made a huge impression on Clare Stevens as a teenager in Belfast in...
Nicola Semple on putting together the ‘jigsaw’ of Two Moors Festival
The festival general manager talks to Florence Lockheart about the ethos behind this year’s ‘home’...
Laura Peribañez Artero on honouring Pablo Casals' legacy of cultural collaboration
Cellist Laura Peribañez Artero reflects on the life of Catalan cellist and composer Pablo Casals and...
‘I must have been born sacrilegious because I love this!’: Marin Alsop on reimagining Handel’s Messiah
The conductor and creator of Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah! talks to Florence Lockheart...
Judith Webster: ‘I see the ABO as a development agency for orchestras’
As the Association of British Orchestras’ new chief executive Judith Webster settles into her role,...