John Adams’s Contemporary to Nixon in China
[asa]B000005IYW[/asa] There are those who would have you believe that new music is a battleground – a deeply cratered landscape scarred by musical grenades flung by vengeful composers seeking with…
John Adams’s Contemporary to Nixon in China
[asa]B000005IYW[/asa] There are those who would have you believe that new music is a battleground – a deeply cratered landscape scarred by musical grenades flung by vengeful composers seeking with…
10 aged violinist’s charity page shut down
Madison Glinksi, aged ten, from St Ives, Cornwall has been playing the violin since the age of four and started busking last Easter in her home town and the Cornish…
Streaming concerts from Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall will begin streaming performances from the 2015/16 season, joining international institutions including the Berlin Philharmonie and France’s new Philharmonie de Paris in offering audiences throughout the world the…
The suggestions of why a Stradivarius violin sound amazing
The size of the ‘f’ holes A new study by academics at MIT have suggested the secret to the Stradivari sound is the size of the ‘f’ holes on the…
French soprano Sabine Devieilhe’s romantic Rameau for Valentine’s Day
[asa]B00FEMGAWQ[/asa] French Baroque music might not seem sexy, but young soprano Sabine Devieilhe (crowned Opera Singer of the Year in the Victoires de la Musique last week) proved otherwise with…
French composer Alexandre Desplat wins Original Music Bafta award
Alexandre Desplat beat off competition from fellow nominees Mica Levi forUnder the Skin , Hans Zimmer for Interstellar, Antonio Sanchez forBirdman and Johann Johannsson for The Theory of Everything. Other winners included:…
Enter some information to win Gramophone’s complete Mozart works
Gramophone has a fantastic 170-disc box-set of Mozart’s complete works to give away! Mozart was arguably the most gifted musician in history, and he left us a staggering number of…
Enter some information to win Gramophone’s complete Mozart works
Gramophone has a fantastic 170-disc box-set of Mozart’s complete works to give away! Mozart was arguably the most gifted musician in history, and he left us a staggering number of…
Hollywood film composer Hans Zimmer – ‘Winning an Oscar is a dangerous experience’
He said winning can spell the end of creativity. “I turn around and all these smiles, these beaming faces… these genuine people cheering for me, and I feel fantastic,” Zimmer says.…