The 2025 Grawemeyer music composition award, worth US$100,000, has gone to a Londoner, Christian Mason, for his work Invisible Threads. The piece, lasting 70 minutes, employs ‘a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encourages […]
The countryhouse opera festival at Nevill Holt, which was severely shrunk last summer, has formed a five-year partnership with the regional opera company to improve its future offer. Up to a point. Here’s the gist: […]
Pianist Frank Dupree’s latest escapades Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) is gaining in popularity: in the UK, Dupree has performed his music with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Rouvali, and we met his Op. 47 Contemplation, Op. 47 […]