Featured today
Ensemble. Intelligently Structured and Winningly Executed — Mike Wheeler is impressed by Fenella Humphreys and Martin Roscoe's Buxton Festival recital marking the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré
Today's concerts
Acis and Galatea - a miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation (London, United Kingdom); Il segreto di Susanna and Pagliacci - two stories of jealousy from two masters of comedy and tragedy (London, United Kingdom)
Today's festival / masterclass
Worcester Three Choirs Festival (Worcestershire, United Kingdom)
Twenty-five years ago today
Site Seeing — Music website news, featuring Blue Snow, Roger Deneuville, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John McHugh, Claude Vivier, MA Recordings, Violin Books and Autographs, Guitars Alive in the 21st Century and Mac's Maddening Musical Mind Mangler. (published 27 July 1999)
Twenty years ago today
Ensemble. Beyond perfection — Mahler's Resurrection Symphony: Levine's farewell concert in Munich, by Tess Crebbin (published 27 July 2004)
Anniversaries
Enrique Granados (1867); Erno Dohnányi (1877); Jonathan Sternberg (1919); Ferruccio Busoni (1924); David Wilkins (1956); Fernando Alonso (2013); Ivan Moravec (2015); Einojuhani Rautavaara (2016); Gilles Tremblay (2017)
Today's background image
Derived from a lithgraph print of the Porte de l'Agasse in Pamiers - birthplace of Gabriel Fauré - by French Romantic painter Eugène de Malbos (1811-1856)
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