“Consider the scenario where all live, organically-produced music, whether professional or amateur, suddenly vanished globally. The absence would profoundly affect people everywhere.” The above comes from a statement released by Music Will Save The World, […]
BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Gergely Madaras at Cheltenham Town Hall – Cheltenham Music Festival 2025 Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’; Arnold: Symphony No. 5, Anna Semple: Fanfare for Cheltenham; Elgar: Enigma […]
How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her. Of his own radically complex leading character, […]