Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31. The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85. It went pretty well, by all accounts. […]

From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube. ‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’     The post […]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, b. Brescia, January 5, 1920 (d. Lugano, 1995) Alfred Brendel, b Wizemberk, Cz, 5 January 1931 Maurizio Pollini, b Milano, 5 January 1942   The post Three piano giants were born today […]