VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day the world woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which 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.
DISCUSSION: Defining Our Field - what is 'classical music' to us, why are we involved and what can we learn from our differences? Read John Dante Prevedini's essay, watch the panel discussion and make your own comments.
Peter Schreier, the German tenor and later conductor, was born in Meissen on 29 July 1935. From 1945 he lived in Dresden. As a boy, he sang in the Dresdner Kreuzchor. After study in Dresden, he sang opera in Europe and gradually specialised in lieder and Mozart's operatic roles. He was one of the twentieth century's leading tenors, and was known as one of the few singers from the German Democratic Republic to perform internationally.
Peter Schreier died on 25 December 2019, aged eighty-four, following a long illness.