From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human beings possess critical […]
The death has been announced of Berlin’s ensemble mosaik founder Bettina Junge, after a long illness. Originally from Cologne, she was passionately committed to contemporary composers, taking board positions with Berlin’s Gesellschaft für Neue Musik […]
The Greek musicologist and senior music critic George Leotsakos died this week, aged 89. Born in Athens, on the 9th of August 1935, he studied with composers Kostas Kydoniatis and Yannis Andreou Papaïoannou, graduating from […]