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Just found online the radio broadcast from 1963 in which John Amis interviews the glorious Dame Myra Hess, whose cut-glass accent and irrepr...

The great violinist Jelly d'Arányi, muse to Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many other composers (maybe even Elgar), was born on thi...

This extraordinary recording from 1928 has finally popped up on Youtube. Here's the second movement of Brahms's Piano Trio in C, Op....

Sexism in classical music. It's everywhere in the industry and it's time someone said so and started to come up with something to be...

Last night you may have heard Erica Worth, editor of Pianist Magazine , joining Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Richard Sisson live on BBC R3 for Pian...

Dame Myra Hess plays Bach's Toccata in G, BWV916. Recorded in 1950, this performance is full of personality and poise, good sense and rh...

Before I hand you over to today's Independent for my piece about Fiona Shaw and The Marriage of Figaro , I have to tell you a little abo...

It's wonderful when they name a day after your musical heroine and make it an annual event. Today at the National Gallery it is Myra Hes...

Life goes on, it's Friday afternoon and it's high time we had a Friday Historical from one of my pianistic goddesses, Dame Myra Hess...