Watch: A quiet chat with Igor Stravinsky

Cellist Frances Borowsky offered to entertain bored passengers. She tells slippedisc.com: ‘Navigating the tight spaces with my bow and instrument was no small feat! Even sitting diagonally into the throughway required that I tilt the […]

The Munich Radio Orchestra is performing the Downton Abbey soundtrack tomorrow at 7 pm in concert and on stream. The piano soloist is John Lunn, the Scottish composer who wrote the series’ background music. Never […]

In 1781, the enlightened Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom, ensuring society’s least privileged – servants like Figaro and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro – of certain civil freedoms, including marriage. In their opera, Mozart and […]