The Fremch organ composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-86) was a shy and retiring man who did little to promote his music other than playing it in church.
This is the composer playing his Suite opus 5. You sit there for 23 seconds wondering, when does the piece begin?
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Kent Nagano has been named principal artistic partner of the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma. Dinis Sousa (pic) has been promoted to music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead-Newcastle. The post Two maestro moves: […]
We have been notified of the passing of Marie-Noëlle Damien, a semi-finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition who made a couple of recordings for EMI. She was, for many years, a student of Evgeny Malinin. […]
The former Bath Festival Orchestra has renamed itself Chromatica and taken up residency at the Battersea Arts Centre in south London. The driving force is concertmaster Maren Bosma. She says Chromatica is ‘a tight knit […]
