We have received news of the death yesterday of the much-recorded Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak. After coming sixth in the 1970 Chopin Competition, won by the American Garrick Ohlsson (with Mitsuko Uchida in second place), […]
Two violinists who have led the Britten Sinfonia for more than a decade have jointly stepped down. Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould will be replaced at the east of England chamber orchestra by the BBC […]
For all he attention on Faust and his Bach arrangement, Ave Maria, the music of Gounod remains elaivly unexplored. This is a welcome disc, therefore. Iroically, I begins with just that Ave Maria in its […]