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Jessica Duchen’s forthcoming biography of Myra Hess gets all steamed up when it comes to the young pianist’s love for the rising composer Arnold Bax. There were a couple of impediments. Bax had a wife […]

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 […]

The 5th Basel Composition Competition gave its results today in the Paul Sacher Saal. 1. Prize: “Nine Odes to the Night” by Qianchen Lu (SFr60,000 + 5,000 audience prize) 2. Prize: “The Gaze of Nmemosyne” […]

Well, Qatar has one, so why not? press release: FUJAIRAH, UAE: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, has officially announced the establishment of the Fujairah Philharmonic Orchestra. This initiative aims […]

This is the famed Philharmonic Hall in Odesa, incubator of a century of musical talent. The Russians lit into it with drones this weekend.   In total, last night, the Russians launched 165 missiles and […]

The composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi grew up with one ancestor as post-War president of Italy and another as its leading literary publisher. What chance did he have in life? If I could re-live any […]

Footage of the Vienna Philharmonic ball, posted by Anna Netrebko:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Anna Netrebko (@anna_netrebko_yusi_tiago) The post Dancing on the edge of a volcano appeared first […]

A leading figure in Polish music and film, Wojciech Trzciński died yesterday after a long illness, ahed 75. As head of music at Poland’s Radio One, he established the national  Fryderyk Awards and created an […]

James Joyce ​James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born 143 years ago this Sunday on 2 February 1882 and died on 13 January 1941. He was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic and a leader […]

A Chinese study suggests that listening to classical music while eating a meal is likely to reduce your intake and, specifically, your craving for fatty foods. Abstract follows. Studies have shown that there is a […]