London’s Royal College of Music has appointed Andrew Moore as Artistic Director from next Spring. He has been head of music at the Edinburgh International Festival for over a decade.
François Bou, MD of the Orchestre National de Lille in France, François Bou has been made artistic and educational director of Casa da Música in Porto (Portugal) from February.
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Virginia Woolf: The Wavescover of the first edition, designed by Vanessa Bell Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel, The Waves, is regarded as her most experimental, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters. It […]
Continuing our ongoing survey of the symphonies of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), we reach the richly complex Fourth symphony in C-Minor, Op. 39 of 1919. The subtitle is, in Swedish, “Från Havsbandet”; in English, “From the […]
This is Classical Explorer‘s first Franck Symphony (D-Minor, M. 48) but it is certainly not our first Franck: we looked at piano music on Hänssler, organ music on BIS, heard Lucas Debargue’s piano transcription of […]
