Richard McKay conducts an evening of reflection and beauty, opening with Górecki’s Three Pieces in Old Style, inspired by Renaissance and Baroque traditions. Harpist Yumiko Endo Schlaffer then ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Throughout his childhood the young Richard Strauss was mentored by his father, horn player in the court of ...
Sonatina No. 2 in E flat, 'Fröhliche Werkstatt' Richard Strauss, Composer Nicholas Daniel, Conductor Aldeburgh Winds Daniel’s feeling for Strauss’s long-range ebb and flow is one of the great ...
Pushy, protective parents don’t always get what they want from their children. The 19th-century Munich horn player and composer Franz Strauss certainly didn’t. He was one of the great instrumentalists ...