Prague City Council has appointed the Czech pianist and educator Ivo Kahánek to be director of the Prague Conservatoire, one of Europe’s oldest music colleges, founded in 1808. Kahánek, 45, will take up the post […]
Bruckner BBC Singers / Owain Park (conductor); Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Peternko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.9.2024 Bruckner Os justi (1879). Locus iste (1869). Chrisus factus est (1884) Symphony No. 5 in B […]
We have learned belatedly of the death from Alzheimers complications of the cellist Gayle Mae Smith, a pupil of Casals in Puerto Rico and of Piatigorsky in Los Angeles (pictured). She enjoyed an international solo […]