The Zagreb pianist and professor Vladimir Krpan, a noted Beethoven specialist, has died at an advanced age.
Krpan founded the piano school in Skopje and from 1971 to 2008 he was professor and head of the piano department at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
The post Croats mourn doyen pianist, 87 appeared first on Slippedisc.
The autograph manuscript of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s string quartet in B flat major, Opus 130, has been acquired by the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. It has been rpivately owned and inaccessible for decades. The […]
From my introduction to tomorrow’s Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, directly after the Proms: Mahan Esfahani is a breaker of moulds. An Iranian who never went to music school, he flew in the face […]
The Radiohead musician performed a concert in Tel Aviv last week with the Israeli artist Dudu Tassa and Arab musicians from other countries, prompting calls from the BDS movement for him to join its boycott. […]
