Brody’s piano leads the trio into the Gaubert piece in the same fashion as Roepke’s harp leads into the Roussel quintet. Only ...
What do you feel when you hear the harp? Calm? Serene? Open to possibilities? The unique sound of the harp in a beautiful performance by harpist Isabelle Moretti is ahead in music this morning, just ...
Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...
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Both players are rising stars of the classical music scene – Akugbo will make his Proms solo debut later this year with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto while the multi award-winning Harper is devoting ...
It’s tough. Mary Lattimore, who along with electronics wizard Jeff Zeigler, has contributed to the Ghostly Swim 2 compilation that’s out now, might not make the instrument as common as guitar. But ...
In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...