Featured today
Ensemble. Enthralling Sound Colours — Malcolm Miller listens to young violinist Michael Foyle's recital of Beethoven, Brahms and Kreisler in London
Today's concert
Gail Archer, organ - Russian programme (New York, United States of America)
Twenty years ago today
Beguiling interpretations — Liszt transcriptions in performance - a London début recital, with Malcolm Miller (published 10 April 2001)
Anniversaries
Victor De Sabata (1892); Jacques Castérède (1926); Sarah Leonard (1953); Nino Rota (1979); David Angel (2017)
Today's background image
Derived from an 1814 engraving of St James' Church, Piccadily, London UK, by English engraver Joseph Skelton (1783-1871)
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