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Nikola Meeuwsen, 23, from the Netherlands won the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the first Dutch pianist to do so. Second place was the Japanese Wataru Hisasue. Crowd favourite Valère Burnon from Belgium came third. No controversies, […]

For the second successive week, an unstarred soloist on a pianino tops the global streaming charts of Apple Classical. You read it here exclusively (and here’s the top 100). 1 Chopin intime Justin Taylor 2 […]

The conductor has enjoyed a clear run until now. As music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 18 years he enjoyed the confidence of the musicians and the adulation of a star-struck audience. The […]