The Portuguese artist Maria João Pires announced her retirement in 2018, only to bounce back the following year for selected engagements. This year, turning 80, she is offering a holiday gift recital of Mozart and […]
Paul Mann British conductor Paul Mann is the principal guest conductor of Lviv National Philharmonic (based in Lviv, the largest city in Western Ukraine) and has a significant discography with Toccata Classics recording undeservedly forgotten […]
An audience member who held up a rude sign in Finnish during an Esa-Pekka Salonen concert ten days ago has been threatened with disciplinary acction by the orchestra management. Laura Leibowitz brandished the sign below. […]