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Lang Lang: a whole new world

    Features
  • Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  • | International Piano
Virtuoso arrangements of tunes from Disney movies are the focus of Lang Lang's latest album, which he hopes will offer younger listeners a way into classical music. Owen Mortimer reports

Just how boring are modern piano recitals?

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 25, 2023
  • | International Piano
Piano recitals are boring. At least, some are. Charivari peruses concert programmes from another age and finds himself wishing that modern pianists were as willing to entertain

Liz Dilnot Johnson: shifting perceptions

    Features
  • Thursday, March 2, 2023
  • | Choir and Organ
Addressing a political hot potato, Liz Dilnot Johnson's Requiem for refugees, commissioned by Ex Cathedra, won her the Community & Participation Award at the Ivors in November 2022. She talks to Matthew Power about what motivates her to compose

What is a Cantata?

    Features
  • Tuesday, April 9, 2019
  • | Gramophone
Richard Wigmore explores the vocal form that was employed so gloriously by JS Bach