Death of Germany’s leading composer, 72

Here’s another rare memento of Myra, ten years after the previous collectible. She has a splendidly leisured way of telling an anecdote.   The post Myra Hess: the Proms interview appeared first on Slippedisc.

The joint concertmaster of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, David Chan, has been named artistic director of the Taipei Music Academy & Festival until 2028. Chan’s parents are from Taiwan. He says: ‘Contributing to Taiwan’s music […]

The US period instrument specialist Robert Levin has an interesting theory for Mozart’s ceaseless output of new piano concertos. He tells Richard Fairman of the FT: ‘I imagine Mozart as being restlessly creative, with a […]