LISTENING TO TCHAIKOVSKY: Béla Hartmann uses his knowledge of Eastern Europe to argue against the banning of all Russian culture following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
ASK ALICE: Weekly, from 2003 until 2016/17, Alice McVeigh took on the role of classical music's agony aunt to answer questions on a surprising variety of subjects.
The Hungarian-born Israeli conductor Moshe Atzmon, born 30 July 1931, has travelled the world in directorships of orchestras, from Sydney in 1961-71 and back to Europe and then America.