For lack of taste and talent you would be hard pressed to find an act duller and more banal than this official state presentation by veteran pop persona Arielle Dombasle.
What were they thinking?
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The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]
The Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin is paying respects to long-serving violinist Eberhard Wangemann, who has died at the age of 104. Described as ‘an exemplary person and musician who made invaluable contributions to the orchestra,’ Wangemann […]
Like the repertoire concertos of Brahms and Beethoven, Busoni’s Violin Concerto is cast in D major (and indeed, Busoni wrote cadenzas for both of his great predecessors’ concertos). Busoni’s Violin Concerto, Op. 37a, was premiered […]
