Music in the Midnight Sun – Toronto Symphony For many of us, the Arctic exists only as a fantasy of snow and polar bears and endangered icebergs. Ignorant as ever, I didn’t realise that people […]
Frida Kahlo – A Life of Pain On Sunday it will be 70 years since Frida Kahlo died. The ground-breaking Mexican artist was best known for her vivid and explorative self-portraits. Her life was eventful, […]
This is a significant release from Naxos: Rachmaninoc’s Piano Sonatas No. 1 & 2, plus an arrangement of the orchestral tone-poem The Isle of the Dead. The First Sonata, D-Minor, Op. 28, dates from 1907/08. […]