The great Cornish baritone died in July this year, aged 87. Friends and colleagues gathered this week at the Wigmore Hall to remember him.
Speakers include Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Bryn Terfel, David Willison, Petroc Trelawny and Sir Mark Elder, as well as recordings of Benjamin Luxon himself.
The post Watch: A tribute to Ben Luxon by Dame Janet, Sir Tom, Sir Bryn and more… appeared first on Slippedisc.
Aurelia Souvignet-Kowalski has been appointed first alto solo at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France. She studied at the Suzuki Institute in Lyon before moving to Vienna and becoming joint principal viola of the Wiener […]
Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]
The Rose At this time of the year, I keenly miss friends who are far away. This New Year, my dearest friends, singer-songwriters Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman, are at home in California and I […]
