A rare video has com to light from John Amis’s private archive. Grainger, in his 70s at the time, was not on top of his game, but fascinating nonetheless. He remains Australia’s most successful composer. […]
The outstanding British-Hungarian violinist György Pauk has owned and played the Massart Strad of 1714 almost all his musical life. He hates to see it idle so, he tells us, ‘I have decided that I […]
With Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók broke with tradition and concentrated the drama into a single act lasting barely an hour. In this powerful and unsettling score, each door Judith opens reveals new worlds of sound, sometimes lush […]