Is Trifonov the best at Cage’s 4’33”?

The German pianist and conductor is leaking snippets from his forthcoming authorised biography. He is open about his relationship with both women and men, among them an affair with Bernstein: ‘I had an intellectual and […]

The cellist has been given the all-clear by his doctors, six months after major surgery. He will give a thanksgiving concert in Lucerne on January 16 with longterm besties Martha Argerich and Janine Jansen. ‘And […]

The great Italian pianist Maria Tipo died this morning in Florence, in her daughter Alina’s arms. Maria was 93. Winner of the 1949 Geneva Competition, she went on to play with many of the world’s […]