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Born in 1930, from an early age Balamuralikrishna demonstrated a prodigious vocal talent that has since won him a prestigious place in Carnatic music. While the singular trajectory of his career has been marked by a number of unusual and personal artistic choices, some of which have been quite controversial, he has nonetheless won the affection and enthusiasm of audiences the world over…. More >>
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There is no substitute for the wisdom of age and experience. Earl Wild, the legendary 86-year-old Grammy Award-winning virtuoso pianist, has a new recording of the piano music of Johannes Brahms. “Of the great many recordings of Brahms’ monumental F minor Sonata No. 3 that I have heard, Earl Wild’s is far and away the most fully realized, the most musically satisfying, and the most breathtaking. His performance is simultaneously spacious and taut, orchestrally textur… More >>
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The subject of the 1998 film “Hilary and Jackie” and gracing the cover of the August 2004 issue of Gramophone Magazine, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré remains as vibrant a figure in the public mind as she had been at the pinnacle of her career – before it was cruelly short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28 years old. The tragedy of her death is still felt by people all over the world, because this great cellist had ways of touching the heart that are given to very, … More >>
