She played one of Schumann’s Kinderszenen in memory of a beloved, ‘fantastic’ colleague, Maria Tipo, who died this week. ‘She will be missed’ said Martha.
The jazz expert and festival director Richard Williams is one of the most perceptive and humane observers of the great musicians of our times. If you don’t know his writings, start right here. Richard has […]
Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count of the Beethoven violin concerto with, near the end of the first movement, a solo cadenza that may have been written by Beethoven. Except it’s not etnirely […]
The mediaeval mystic, Margery Kempe (ca.1373-1448) is a fascinating figure. She freed herself from the restraint of marriage and embarked on pilgrimages to sacred sites in Europe and the Middle East, dressed usually in white. […]