Wanda Landowska met Manuel de Falla in Paris in 1910.
Sixteen years later, he sent her a concerto for harpsichord and five instruments.
Ever heard it?
Mahan Esfahani is bringing it back to attention.
Get some in.
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The Czech Phil with its principal guest conductor gets grooving with the firt set of Dvorak Slavonic Dances. We ran the second set a few weeks back. The post The principal guest dances appeared first […]
Composer John Adams made this event of modern history the subject of his first opera. Premiered in 1987, this a mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic […]
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 […]
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