Israel music chief dies at 40

Louise Alder is the first British singer for a decade to feature in the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. (Don’t ask why, just happened that way.) Louise, who spent a decade at Frankfurt Oper, […]

In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]

Newly uploaded: Boris Pigovat began writing his sonata for bassoon and piano in September 2023. The horrific attack of October 7 interrupted the creative process. The second movement was written months later, referencing the prayer […]