The last guest in my current series on BBC Radio 3 is the pianist and composer Gabriela Montero. Exiled from Venezuela and an outspoken opponent of the regime, she has suffered prejudice in parts of […]
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 […]
Wole Soyinka Click here to subscribe The greater the honour, the deeper the shame. In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin, to accompany him into […]