Statelessness and the plight of refugees are still very much here with us. A new album with a work that is based “on the universal experience of refugees being exiled from their homeland” was released on March 3, 2023, on

Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at Barcelona’s prestigious Gran Teatre del Liceu was hard to ignore. Jaume Plensa is not only a globally admired sculptor, but he is also something of a Catalan hero. This new production was bound to be the

A new life of Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) has been published by Kahn & Averill in London. Babette Kaiserkern’s Luigi Boccherini: Musica Amorosa gives us a new and complete life of an extremely talented composer whose music has been neglected for

What do composers Ethel Smyth, Frederick Delius, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, and Benjamin Britten have in common? If you guessed they all wrote cello sonatas, you’d be correct. Cellist Lionel Handy and pianist Jennifer Walsh have brought these interesting British works

Bruce Liu Plays Variations in B flat major, Op. 2 (18th Chopin Competition, third stage) Canadian pianist Bruce Liu has rocketed to fame since his triumph in the latest Chopin Piano Competition. In his long-awaited debut recital in Hong Kong,

The title of this memoir is a clue to just how much, or how little, the author, the celebrated concert pianist and polymath Sir Stephen Hough, is prepared to reveal. Anyone looking for an account of “how I became a

A composer’s first published works are often interesting discoveries: what did they want to publish with their name on it? How did they want to attract attention? In this new recording by Vladimir Feltsman, we get to explore the first

In this new recording of French songs from the turn of the 20th century, we explore the sonic world of Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), Ernest Chausson (1855–1899), and the unknown Charlotte Sohy (1887–1955). For the soprano, Marie-Laure Garnier, this music covers