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.
Jake Heggie (Photo: James Niebuhr) Jake Heggie‘s song cycle for soprano, violin and string quartet, Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope is receiving its UK premiere at violinist Madeleine Mitchell‘s The Red Violin Festival […]
I’ve been noticing over the past couple of years the steady increase in the price of CDs – and over just the past year or two, the skyrocketing price of CDs. One notable example is […]
The death has been announced of Albert Llanas Rich, a leading Catalan composer whose work was performed by international orchestras. Albert was 67. Sequences for Orchestra , which won the City of Barcelona Prize, is […]