New online: Klaus Mäkelä’s double act

The death has been communicated of Arthur Moreira Lima, a leading Brazilian pianist who came second to Martha Argerich in the 1965 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Arthur recorded the complete works of Chopin over the […]

The German conductor has postponed his return to duty after having a second bout of surgery on his Achilles heel. He has cancelled an appearance this weekend at the Janáček Brno Festival where he will […]

Any mention of Kosovo draws instant associations with the Balkan wars of the 1990s. This, however, is going to be its new opera house, designed by Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels Group. It is magical, inviting, peaceful. […]