Features & Interviews
First Persons: composers Colin Alexander and Héloïse Werner on fantasy in guided improvisation
Wednesday, 17 April 2024For tonight’s performance at Milton Court, the nuanced and delicate tones of strings, voices, harmonium and chamber organ will merge and mingle together to tell tales of a rain-speckled landscape, luck and misfortune, forgotten valour, daily creative rituals and memories slowly vanishing into flames.
First Person: Leeds Lieder Festival director and pianist Joseph Middleton on a beloved organisation back from the brink
Saturday, 13 April 2024Everyone needs friends and everything is connected. As we throw the doors open on to the 2024 Leeds Lieder Festival I am struck by just how remarkable classical music can be for a community, particularly when it is looked after and invested in by its own community.
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