Jean Cocteau’s 135th Birthday Click here to watch This week also marks the 135th birthday of Jean Cocteau, the celebrated French author, playwright, artist and director. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – […]
De Pasión Mortal: Songs from two golden ages; Henry Purcell, Claudio Monteverdi, Víctor Jara, Tomás Méndez, Silvio Rodríguez, Ariel Ramírez, Ñico Rojas, Rafael Hernández Marín; Nicolas Mulroy, Elizabeth Kenny, Toby Carr, Music for a While; […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Klaus Tennstedt fled East Germany in his mid-40s in 1971 and hung around for half a decade before anyone noticed he was a truly remarkable conductor – ‘last […]