The Short, Tragic Life of Dinu Lipatti
Remembering the pianist on his centenary
Listening to Pärt in the Dark
The music of eternity
The Conscience of Adolf Busch
He’d return to Germany, he said, when Hitler was hanged
In Praise of Vinyl
Returning to a more tactile, immersive experience
Remembering Rostropovich
A defender of the arts during authoritarian rule
The Inimitable Christian Ferras
What darkness lay beneath his excellence?
A Tale of Two Concerts
Music meant politics at Richard Nixon’s second inauguration
The Old Master
Neville Marriner breathed new life into Baroque music, with a sense of drive and panache
It Beggared All Description
The famous flop that opened the Met
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
