Thomas Enhco belongs to a new generation of artists who seem happiest when one musical world bumps into another. He enjoys breaking down rigid boundaries by performing roughly 100 concerts annually worldwide. He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatory

October is one of the richest months on the classical music calendar when it comes to anniversaries. It marks the birthdays of Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Liszt, and Charles Ives – the deaths of Chopin, Bruckner, and Jacqueline du Pré –

Alina Ibragimova, born on 28 September 1985 in Polevskoy, Russia, has established herself as one of today’s most respected and distinctive violinists. Her playing combines formidable technical command with an intensely personal sensitivity to colour, articulation, and musical detail. With

Hong Kong-born pianist Rachel Cheung made her triumphant international debut at age 11 at the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Ukraine. Additional awards followed at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod (2002), the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition (2004), and a

Salamone Rossi was born around 1570 into a prominent Jewish family in Mantua, a busy city in Northern Italy. During this period, life for Italian Jews was shaped by tight legal restrictions and social isolation. European rulers often viewed Jewish

Mozart symphonies are not always by Mozart. Over the centuries, works by his father Leopold, his colleague Michael Haydn, and even anonymous composers have all ended up bearing Wolfgang Mozart’s name. The catalogue of Mozart’s symphonies has been quietly corrected

There is a long list of composers who died poor – and it includes some of the most celebrated names in the Western canon. Vivaldi, Schubert, Paganini, and others wrote music that outlasted empires, but died with little to their

Béla Bartók’s final year was a storm of fatal illness, profound creativity, professional triumph, and heartbreaking exile. By the time the Hungarian composer entered the last twelve months of his life, he had terminal leukaemia and was increasingly frail. But