Throughout the history of classical music there have been numerous legends, myths and spooky stories. Paganini was said to be sponsored by the devil, Schumann was plagued by thoughts of death and ...
The bursting schedules of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and South Bank Centre, and the strength of music in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff, among other cities, show a ...
This year it’s time — some might say, about time — to shine the spotlight on Brahms, that flat-out Romantic who chose classical models for ... hearkens back to the Chamber Music Festival days, there’s ...
Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical ... near the piano, I asked him why people should care about this waltz, 175 years after Chopin’s death. “This level of music making — it ...
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