Homelands: songs of exile, alienation and escape

Homelands is the title of this programme, curated by pianist and writer Aron Goldin and released by Rubicon last October.  However, in the context of creative artists’ representation of ‘home’,…

Longborough Festival Opera appoints Emily Gottlieb as Executive Director

Longborough Festival Opera has appointed Emily Gottlieb as its new Executive Director from April 2024. Gottlieb joins Longborough from the National Opera Studio where she served as Chief Executive for…

Lawrence Foster conducts Kodály and Bartók on Pentatone

In a tribute essay to Kodály in the 1965 Aldeburgh Festival programme Benjamin Britten suggested, ‘There can be no composer of our century who has done more for the musical…