The country’s pioneering saxophonist, founder of the instrument’s only specialist school, has died in Moscow, at 84. Margarita Shaposhnikova was born in Saratov in 1940 and became professor at the Gnessin school. Her proudest moment […]
Chandos has done Edward Gregson proud in this release. The Tuba Concerto has a personal connection, in that it was commissioned by Besses o’ th’ Barn band, based between Whitefield and Prestwich; I passed Besses […]