The London Eye (Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0) On Saturday 25 January, BBC Radio 3 launched 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century, its sequence of 25 commissions celebrating and commemorating some of […]
Two weeks after the passing of the Geneva and Paris opera chief Hugues Gall, he has been followed by his longstanding partner, the dancer and choreigrapher Eric Vu-An. Eric was 60. He died of cancer […]
In October 1974, Carlos Kleiber made his first commercial recording. It was Beethoven’s fifth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and it was instantly (and lastingly) acclaimed as the most perfect interpretation of […]