In her latest album, Villani-Côrtes: Unreleased Piano Works, pianist and scholar Danieli Longo brings to light a remarkable body of music that had, until now, remained unheard. Dedicated to the Brazilian composer Edmundo Villani-Côrtes, the recording presents a collection of pieces preserved in the

After a car accident during his tour in China, Canadian pianist Martin Mayer wasn’t sure if he would ever play the piano again. ‘Within seconds: immense agony. Left hand – dislocated 5th finger jutting outward at a 90° angle. Right

British composer Andrew Downes (1950–2023) came from a musical family. After completing his music studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, he studied at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells. He combined composition with teaching when he founded the

Opera director Tang Xinxin has a new production opening in Singapore of Verdi’s Macbeth, running 27 to 29 March. We spoke with Ms Tang about this production and her other work in a recent conversation. Ms Tang is a graduate

Mosaic Seasons, founded in 2023 by composer Tatiana Svetlova as a classical music festival based in the South of France and Monaco, returns to London on 14th March with its inaugural UK presentation of Music of Our Time at Bechstein

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (ca 1562–1621) put his stamp on not only the music of the Netherlands but also that of North Germany, as a teacher of those who became the players of the North German School, and on English keyboard

It seems as though every age has its own Kurt Weill (1900–1950). Into the 1920s German cabaret? We have a Weill for that. Broadway more your style? We have a Kurt Weill for that. Hollywood? Art song? Opera? Yes, for

Most people may think, as they enter their ninth decade on this earth, that it is time to take a richly-deserved rest – but Sir John Rutter is not most people. Sir John (a recent knighthood last year for his