The conductor takes time out in Berlin to talk through his first performance of Janacek’s comic opera with its leading singer Peter Hoare. In true Broucek fashion, they have a beer and bratwurst. The beer, […]
I find it rather uplifting that, in a global market, a great composer can be revered in one section of the world and totally ignored in the rest. It is entirely to the credit of […]
Litle has ever been seen or heard in music circles of Vera Ligeti, who was twice married to the major modernist György Ligeti. They wed in Budsapest in 1952, when she was 22 and he […]