Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: Yehudi menuhin | Rare Historical Photos

The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played together decades later

The Guardian - UK

Humphrey Burton, renowned arts broadcaster, dies at 94

Former BBC head of music and arts hailed as ‘huge influence on generations of arts programme-makers’

The Guardian - UK

‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50

As the classic album hits 50, Nick Mason talks about the often difficult process of making it and how it has since fit into their larger catalogue

The Guardian - US

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Charles Beare obituary

Violin expert and international stringed instrument dealer who worked with Yehudi Menuhin and Jacqueline du Pré

The Guardian - UK

Scottish composer receives a posthumous Swedish Grammy

A recording of a work by innovative Scottish pianist composer Ronald Stevenson has been awarded a Swedish Grammy 10 years after his death ...

The National (Scotland)

György Pauk obituary

Consummate Hungarian violinist who was a distinguished interpreter of the music of his compatriot Béla Bartók

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Kennedy: why I’m going on stage to play jazz with my ‘young cats’

Best-selling violinist who learned from Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli, reveals he has been mentoring budding musicians ahead of London residency

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Patrick Ireland obituary

Other lives: Original member of the Allegri Quartet and assistant head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music

The Guardian - UK

Notting Hill carnival’s ‘founding spirit’ to be honoured with blue plaque

Journalist and activist Claudia Jones among five women whose life and legacy will be marked by English Heritage

The Guardian - UK

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and activist Claudia Jones to receive blue plaques

Also being honoured are suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Sophia Duleep Singh.

The Independent UK

‘Founding spirit’ of Notting Hill Carnival among new blue plaque names in London

English Heritage has revealed six people whose names will be enscribed on blue plaques around the capital this year.

The Independent UK

Violinist Susan Collins to star at Newcastle Music Festival

By the time she was 14, Susan was performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, uat the Sydney Opera House

People

Johann Sebastian Bach

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

University of Wollongong

27 stories

BBC Radio 3

16 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.