Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

The former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud. He faces up to ten years jail. As in all such cases in Russia at […]

Carolina Codina married Sergei Prokofiev in 1923, returned with him to Moscow in 1936, was dumped by her husband four years later and would up in one of Stalin’s gulags. Now, a Polish play in […]

The award-winning English cellist Richard Harwood is playing out his final month in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before making a change of direction. He writes: A couple of months ago, I reached the sad decision […]