The Italian soprano Celestina Casapietra died this week in her homeland. After early successes in Milan she married the DDR conductor Herbert Kegel and became half of the regime’s operatic glamour couple. In Berlin, she […]
Robert Kahn Robert Kahn, Robert Schumann, Erich Korngold, Paul Hindemith; Florian Störtz, Aleksandra Myslek; City Music Foundation at Tallow Chandlers’ HallReviewed 16 December 2024 Forbidden by the Nazis and forced to feel to England in […]
From my introduction to tomorrow’s Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, directly after the Proms: Mahan Esfahani is a breaker of moulds. An Iranian who never went to music school, he flew in the face […]