In today’s birthday honours, King Charles has bestowed well-deserved knighthoods on the church composer John Rutter and the outgoing BrittenPears chief Roger Wright, a former head of the BBC Proms and Radio 3.
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Almost 230 compositions from 37 nationalities were submitted for Finland’s Uuno Klami Composition Competition. The highest number of entries came from Italy, Finland, Germany, Britain and Spain. The selected finalists are Yves Balmer, 45 (France/Switzerland): […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The fashion these days is to remix the 16 Beethoven quartets, selecting one from each period — early, middle and late — in concert and record cycles. It […]
If you enjoyed Sir Willard White’s performance in Monday night’s Prom [see my review] or perhaps you are regretting not seeing him, then later this month there is a chance to hear him up close […]
