We have been notified of the passing of Marie-Noëlle Damien, a semi-finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition who made a couple of recordings for EMI.
She was, for many years, a student of Evgeny Malinin.
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From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]
