The Bolshoi has announced the death of Rodion Shchedrin, Russia’s most successful composer of the late and post-Communist eras. Although open to modernist ideas in his composition and teaching, and refusing to join the Communist […]
We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht Interview with the great violinist is the first programme-length conversation he has ever agreed to. We talk about many things – his boyhood bout of polio, the […]
In an interview in today’s Times, the Welsh singer announces herself as executive producer on The King of Covent Garden, directed by her husband, Andrew Levitas. Anthony Hopkins will play Georg Frideric Handel. Jenkins does […]