Alastair Macaulay reviews the Royal Ballet’s latest for slippedisc.com: Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets by Alastair Macaulay The Royal Ballet, as if proclaiming that we have entered a great era of new ballet choreography, is beginning […]
The death has been communicated of Ferenc Rados, Hungarian pianist and professor at the Liszt Academy. Zoltan Kocsis once called him ‘the most enigmatic individual of Hungarian music life’ adding: ‘How is it possible that […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — […]