The death has been communicated of Klaus Thunemann, principal bassoon in Hamburg in the 1960s and 70s, an international soloist and a lasting influence on the next two generations of performers. Klaus was 88.
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Violinist Lisa Batiashvili has cancelled her three concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on 28/29/30 November with Daniel Harding conducting. Her replacement in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2 will be the Hungarian Kristóf […]
Katherine Potter: Eight Nocturnes; Katherine Potter, Adam Pinto; ABC ClassicReviewed 27 January 2025 Personal reflection, late night jazz and minimalism along with Potter’s own warmly rhapsodic viola playing all contribute to these eight mellow new […]
Johann Nepomuk Hummel is known as much for being a pupil of Mozart and Haydn as for his actual music. A virtuoso pianist himself, he wrote a significant amount of piano music but there is […]
