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A friend has asked me to share my few personal memories of Rostropovich... About three years ago, I interviewed him briefly backstage at the...

Mstislav Rostropovich has passed away. The Guardian has a full obituary, tributes from James MacMillan, Steven Isserlis and others, and a s...

Rightyho, prospectus duly plundered. What follows is just a taste of the interesting (or just really attractive) dates that didn't make ...

I regret not having discovered, until today, violinist-blogger Simon Hewitt Jones's reports from the Mozart in Palestine festival throu...

I had a lot of s*)% to deal with yesterday and everything happened at the time I should have been heading for the Proms launch. By the time ...