Fashion’s loss

How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her.  Of his own radically complex leading character, […]

The Japanese violinist Yuki Serino won the 40,000-Euro top prize at the new Città di Cremona Competition. Second was Shaoheng Zhong from China. In third place was Nurie Chung from South Korea. The Lithuanian Chamber […]

Pictures have been posted of the Intonations chamber music festival staged at Kühlhaus Berlin by Elena Bashkirova, who is married to Daniel Barenboim. Participants included Elisabeth Leonskaja, Igor Levit, Yulianna Avdeeva, Mohamed Hiber, Mihaela Martin, […]