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Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: Couples might find it hard to work and live together. The two pairs of Carducci musicians cannot imagine it any other way

The Walled City Music Festival has announced an exciting international line-up of guest artists for its 14th edition, taking place on March 23-26 2023.  So...

A fully annotated edition of more than 1600 letters from and to Gerald Finzi, spanning the composer's life from ca. the early 1920s - 1956.

But courage comes before confidence – as I discovered with my friend and colleague Lucy Russell. Internationally recognised violinist and leader of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Lucy is no stranger to improvisatory music. But despite her ability to play divisions in 17 th century repertoire, her flair for baroque ornamentation and her experience in collaborating with composers, Lucy felt unable to play completely ‘off the sheet’. Talking about this, she expressed a tangible fear: she be...

Giordano Bruno | 05/22/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Shostakovichs string quartets are as much the supreme masterworks of 20th Century music as Beethovens were of the classical period. I hardly dare say more about them; they are profound on every level, and like Beethovens, they grow more profound with every listening. Shostakovich, in a sense, discovered the Fitzwilliam String Quartet when its members were undergrads at Cambridge. He entrusted the first western performances of his last three quar...