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Icon: Fritz Kreisler

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Tully Potter celebrates the prototypical Viennese-style violinist who for half a century was adored among peers, critics and audiences, and who made hundreds of recordings

Icon: Edwin Fischer

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Monday, January 9, 2023

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Celebrating the qualities of his playing and the many and varied achievements of this Swiss pianist, Stephen Cera highlights the fact that he deserves greater recognition as an innovator

Rostropovich: what made the cellist a 20th-century musical icon?

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates the artistry of a legendary fellow cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian musician who was an outspoken advocate of human rights and an inspiration for many composers

Contemporary composer: Oliver Leith

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Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Hattie Butterworth explores this young British composer’s unique influences and how collaborations are crucial to his work

Icon: Grace Bumbry

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

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A tribute to the American soprano/mezzo Grace Bumbry who dreamt of becoming a Lieder singer then fell into opera

Contemporary composer: Benet Casablancas

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

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This Catalan’s many and varied interests are evident throughout both his small- and his large-scale output, says Gavin Dixon

Resurrecting an English rarity: Stanford’s The Critic at Wexford Festival Opera

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

| Opera Now

As Wexford Festival Opera prepares to stage Stanford’s English satire The Critic, we explore the work’s history and its place in the composer’s operatic output