The house where Ferruccio Busoni lived from 1902-08, and where he composed his monumental piano concerto, was remembered with a memorial plaque yesterday in Berlin. Next month sees the centenary of the composer’s death.
Igor Levit, an outstanding interpreter of the concerto, shared his experiences of playing it at age 18.
Musicians are mourning the death of Matias de Oliveira Pinto, a cellist and professor, killed in a car crash near Münster on Monday night. The Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra writes: The Osesp Foundation deeply mourns […]
Highlights include: Britten Weekend marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz Aurora Orchestra performs Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from memory and is joined by Chloë Hanslip for Prokofiev’s […]
In an act of Kremlin musical chairs, the Russian leader has reshuffled his Presidential Council for Culture and Art. Out goes the former Bolshoi chief, Vladimir Urin, who was never much of a Putinist. In […]