The last Long-Thibaud Competition saw a standoff between the jury and the audience, but with a history stretching back nearly 80 years it takes more than a scandal and a pandemic to knock it off...
Julian Haylock meets the pianist, author and composer Alfred Brendel, who looks back over his long career in a wide-ranging interview about the music he loves most – and why
Jonathon Brown meets Bobby Mitchell, artistic director of the EBEN festival in France, to discuss his freestyle approach to Schumann's late works, and the liberating idiosyncrasies of Haydn
British pianist, composer and writer Sir Stephen Hough reveals his formative musical influences
British pianist and conductor Ian Hobson selects special recordings from across the years
The Verbier Festival has stood the test of time, attracting a nucleus of loyal stars to an event that is something of a pilgrimage. Michael Church reports
Owen Mortimer in conversation with Burkard Schliessmann about his interpretation of Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations, BWV 988, released on Divine Art
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