Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]
Agency chief Alex Shustorovich has been talking to the FT for the first time about how he got rid of his partner, the convicted fraudster Barrett Wissman: Wissman ran into legal trouble during the global […]
The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]