This is a significant release from Naxos: Rachmaninoc’s Piano Sonatas No. 1 & 2, plus an arrangement of the orchestral tone-poem The Isle of the Dead. The First Sonata, D-Minor, Op. 28, dates from 1907/08. […]
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just completed a well-received tour of Japan. Not a word has appeared on the orchestra’s website, where the news section has not been updated since May 1. The […]
The Times higher education supplement reports that Australia’s National University has gutted the core of National School of Music to ‘programme’ rather than academic pursuit. ANU’s performance, composition and theory teaching will give way to […]