VIDEO PODCAST: New Recordings - Find out about Adrian Williams, Andriy Lehki, African Pianism, Heinrich Schütz and Walter Arlen, and meet Stephen Sutton of Divine Art Recordings, conductor Kenneth Woods, composer Graham Williams and others.
VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
English contralto Clara Butt, born in Sussex on 1 February 1873, was known especially for foreign tours of ballad programmes with her husband as accompanist. She was the first to sing Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures (1899 Norwich Festival). She died in Oxford on 23 January 1936.