This maelstrom of madness and delusional behaviour, which fills the plot of Un giorno di regno with twists and turns, is a rare thing: a comic opera by Verdi. Written by the composer in his mid-twenties […]
The influential French composer’s 150th anniversary, utterly ignored in Paris, is top and second of this week’s Apple streaming charts (shared exclusively by slippedisc.com): 1 Satie: Discoveries Alexandre Tharaud 2 Chapeau Satie Xuefei Yang 3 […]
The hard-talk interview is back this Saturday night on Radio 3, straight after the Proms. First into the hot seat is cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who talks of trick-and-treating on her debut day, playing with Type-1 […]