New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]

AskonasHolt has signed the Chinese pianist Junyan Chen, who came second in the recent Leeds competition. The winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, is already represented by Monika Felkel’s NY boutique agency. Junyan played a blinder in Rach […]

Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined This is a fascinating illustrated lecture from the Met Museum, given by Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and […]