Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Alpha Classics

In a talk to a Prague audience in the land of his birth, the late pianist plucks a few snippets from an elusive autobiography. ‘Towards the end of the war,’ he relates without expression,  ‘there […]

Barrie Gavin died yesterday. One of the most energetic young producers on David Attenborough’s BBC2 channel, Gavin formed a creative relationship with Pierre Boulez and later with Karlheinz Stockhausen, gaining access to the cutting edge […]

In May 2021, pianist Kirill Gerstein spent part of his Gilmore prize money on a commission to Chick Corea (pictured) to compose a piece for him to play with the jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton. Their […]