That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne. It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La […]
Basilica of Santa Barbara at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantuawhere Monteverdi was working when he wrote his Vespers of 1610 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Temple Music Foundation at Temple ChurchReviewed 8 […]
Winner of the 1965 Leventritt Competition at Carnegie Hall, with Leonard Bernstein on the jury, Han Tong-il was the first Korean to come top in any international piano contest. Son of a timpanist in the […]