I don’t remember a silence quite like last night’s packed Wigmore Hall. Mischa Maisky was back after prolonged illness with his career- long recital partner Martha Argerich and a youngish violinist, Yossif Ivanov. Mischa, looking […]
The Siege of Florence (1558) by Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio, FlorenceSan Matteo in Arcetri is the reddish building in the bottom left of the picture Musica Secreta is the UK’s only all-female Renaissance ensemble. Their […]
The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]