Aquarium of Vulcan

A recent  Harmonia Mundi  recording (January '25) by the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Onofri of the  Haffner  and  Posth...

No-one really knows the full motivation or reason why Mozart composed what were to be his last three symphonies, or whether he heard a...

Statues have been associated with religion and spirituality from earliest recorded time to the present-day. 'From the M...

Throughout this year I've been listening to Joseph Haydn's complete cycle of 104 symphonies recorded  on 33 CD’s in total. In d...

             And therefore it was remarkably singular in the battle of Africa , that Scipio fearing a rout from the Elephants of the ...

Daniel Barenboim (born 1942 ) Just finished reading Daniel Barenboim 's 'Everyt...

A scene from Jiří Kylián DVD 'Black and White' I thought I was onto something with t...

Last night I watched 'The Marriage of Figaro' on DVD. More lingua Italia, thank heavens for sub-titles! The whole art of Opera has...

When the 22 year-old Mozart arrived in Paris in March 1778 he had high hopes of making a name for himself. However he discovered Parisian...