THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL: Roderic Dunnett previews the 2024 edition of the UK's oldest music festival, 27 July until 4 August.
VIDEO PODCAST: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors.
VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. Also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
Russian pianist and teacher Vera Gornostayeva was born on 1 October 1929. She studied with Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and she later taught at this same institution.
Her performing career included making many recordings of piano music by Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Her piano pupils included about fifty prize winners of international competitions, and she also gave masterclasses in many countries, lectured on radio and TV and published articles and books.
Vera Gornostayeva died on 19 January 2015, aged eighty-five..