In the summer of 1939 the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a field mass for Czech soldiers who were volunterring to fight for France. It’s a fabulous piece, very rarely heard.
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Lena-Catharina Schneider (pic) is stepping aside as artistic director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, ‘at her own request’. She plans to choose ‘a new career path’ that will achieve a better balance between family life […]
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The Finnish music world is in mourning for an outstanding violinist, Eriikka Maalismaa, who succumbed yesterday in hospital to a fast-progressing condition. Eriikka, concertmaster of the Helsinki Philharmonic fro 2006 to 2016, gave the world […]
