Beethoven: Violin Concerto – Tobias Feldmann, Anja Bihlmaier, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise) German conductor Anja Bihlmaier has been appointed principal guest conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, starting in September, working alongside […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
Georgia O’Keeffe died 39 years ago this week on March 6, 1986, aged 98. Called the “Mother of American Modernism”, she was the preeminent female painter of the 20th century. Starting as a watercolour artist, […]