Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]
Pegasus Opera’s mentoring programme with Danielle de Niese in 2024 Pegasus Opera launched its opera mentoring programme in 2020 in response to the continued underrepresentation of classical artists of global majority heritage on the UK […]
Message from the Reine Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, which starts tomorrow: As some of the 70 candidates have withdrawn, 60 pianists will participate in the first round, starting on Monday 5 May at 3pm. The […]