Featured today
CD Spotlight. Existential Uncertainty — Symphonic and chamber music by Christopher Gunning, recommended by Gerald Fenech. '... both performances are nothing short of exhilarating ...'
Today's festival / masterclass
Three Choirs Festival (24 July-1 August) (Worcester, United Kingdom)
Twenty-one years ago today
CD Spotlight — Gershwin arrangements - Peter Dickinson listens to Michael Finnissy as arranger (published 30 July 2000)
Anniversaries
Gerald Moore (1899); Siegfried Köhler (1923); Moshe Atzmon (1931); André Prevost (1934); George Szell (1970); Buxton Festival (1979); Khayyam Mirzazade (2018)
Today's background image
Derived from the circa 1837-40 oil-on-canvas painting Morskie Oko (the largest and fourth deepest lake in the Tatra mountains in southern Poland) by Polish Romantic realist painter Jan Nepomucen Głowacki (1802-1847)
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