The Australian violinist Donald Hazelwood died this weekend, a few days after turning 95. He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a second violinist in 1952, rising to co-concertmaster in 1965 and leading the orchestra […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: In the early days of long-playing records. a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the […]
The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]