After a longer than expected absence for two leg surgeries, Christian Thielemann is back rehearsing at the Vienna State Opera. The work is a lifelong favourite – Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, about a composer who showed […]
The University of St Andrews, in Fife, has let it be known that the distinguished violist Alan George ‘has very recently stepped aside from an extraordinary 56-year association with the Fitzwilliam Quartet.’ There has been […]
Matthew Raimondi died in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the age of 96 on Saturday, October 19. He is survived by his wife, Natalie, and daughter, Diana, and scores of friends and fellow musicians with whom […]