Anna Dennis and Julian Perkins on John Weldon's The Judgment of Paris

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Celebrating Wigmore Hall at 125 with Director John Gilhooly and author Julia Boyd

On May 31, 1901 London's Wigmore Hall (originally Bechstein Hall) opened its doors, and hosted its first concert. Among the performers were the great Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe and the Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni. Mrs Helen Trust, a much-admired ...  Show more

Helen Charlston on 'A Poet's Love'

In this episode of the Gramophone Podcast, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston speaks to Hattie Butterworht in Amsterdam during the run of Michel van der Aa's new opera Theory of Flames to discuss her latest album, A Poet's Love. Centred on Schumann's Dichterliebe, the recording places ...  Show more

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