Royal Philharmonic Society prizewinners and former resident ensemble at Oxford University, the Castalian String Quartet is about to announce its disbandment.
The quartet, based in London, has been together since 2011. It changed violist last year, adding the US musician Natalie Loughran to Finnish first violinist Sini Simonen and two Welshmen, violinist Daniel Roberts and cellist Steffan Morris.
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In October 1974, Carlos Kleiber made his first commercial recording. It was Beethoven’s fifth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and it was instantly (and lastingly) acclaimed as the most perfect interpretation of […]
The violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov, head of Moscow’s International House of Music, has been awarded a state honour by his friend in the Kremlin. Spivakov, 80, joins a list of hard-handed sons of toil. […]
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