There is nothing quite like Czech music played by Czech musicians – and the Škampa Quartet proved the point. The…
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In 1945 American troops, entering the town of Garmisch, encountered an old man who announced himself as Richard Strauss. To…
Awake! Arise! was created as a CD in 2019, followed by Winter tours, as a celebration of Winter and Christmas…
Espen Eriksen is the epitome of a Norwegian jazz musician, building a spacey acoustic around his Steinway, concentrating his efforts…
Eliza Carthy is folk music royalty. Her father, Martin, one of the more innovative players of the 1980s and 1990s,…
One of the things about Opera North’s programming for the Howard Assembly Room is you never know what’s coming next…
Anyone who has read Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music knows the level of involvement, the homogeneity, of a string quartet.…
The Phantom of the Opera is now best known as a blockbuster musical, but Gaston Leroux’s novel was first brought…