I don’t think there can be many musical experiences as fine and English than we were lucky enough to witness at St Mary’s Church in Petworth, but in this case, not just English, but more specifically a magical celebration of The South Downs
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Facing the Music: Artistic Identity During Crisis
What does it mean to be an artist when the circumstances that allow us to practise and share our art are suddenly taken away?
Around the Globe with Stephen Hough
Sir Stephen Hough takes us on a world tour with his new album Postcards, a charming collection of piano miniatures, souvenirs, if you will, collected over his many years of touring and performing around the globe.
Grieving pianist receives a 200-year-old hug from Schubert
When George Fu lost his father, he turned to Schubert for solace. Fu likened the experience of playing Schubert’s Sonata No 19 in C minor to receiving “a hug from 200 years ago”. Out of this difficult time came a recording, Solitude with Schubert. Impressed with the Schubert project, Karine Hetherington from ArtmuseLondon, went to find…
Pianist Siqian Li: “Being well-behaved in music is not a compliment.”
Pianist Siqian Li: “Being well-behaved in music is not a compliment.”
Thomas Luke: ‘See Me Now’ – a confident, imaginative debut
‘an impressive debut that leaves one wanting to hear more from this confident and imaginative musician’
Our dictionaries are being sucked into a maw called the internet
We modern-day Luddites (I am 87) hate stooping to the web for dubious factoids, preferring to get our answers from well-edited books including our old dictionaries that were printed with ink on fine-fibre paper. Those books are now disappearing into a hungry maw called the internet.
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