The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years.
The CBSO chief conductor Kazuki Yamada has been awarded the 56th Suntory Music Award ‘for notable contributions to the development of Western-style music in Japan’. The prize is worth about £35,000. The post Birmingham maestor […]
The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]
Henry James died 109 years ago this week on 28 February 1916. He was an American-British author, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to […]