Niccolò Paganini by Ingres (1818) The Oxford Philharmonic’s Bach Mendelssohn Festival might be over [see my review] but the orchestra’s season in Oxford continues apace. There is a focus on 19th century violin virtuosi during […]
Over the hoplidays this week, BBC Radio 3 is running three new Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in thee music world. Two are notoriously elusive. This is, I am told, the first programme-length interview Itzhak […]
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the Chinese family of pianist Weilu Liu, who died in a murder-suicide with her violent husband Jonathan Rivera in Gainesville, Florida. Weilu had come to the US […]