Features & Interviews
Oscars 2020: a 'Parasite' love-in caps a night of firsts
Monday, 10 February 2020
The 92nd Academy Awards saved its surprises for a final stretch that saw Parasite make history as the first foreign language film ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture, pipping to the post the presumptive favourite, the World War One drama 1917 (pictured below).
Young people's guides to the orchestra: the making of 'Not Now, Bernard & Other Stories'
Friday, 31 January 2020
"Let’s make an album” is an easy thing to say but an infinitely more difficult thing to actually make happen.
theartsdesk in Brussels - jazz, openness and...
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
“Brussels – The Cultural Guide” for 2020 is a very substantial book. It consists of 212 tightly-packed pages in a quite small font. The message is...
Bridging the cultural divide: Armenian conductor...
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
We’re touring across Europe in January 2020, visiting five countries to perform eight concerts with the world-class violinist Maxim Vengerov as our...
'Divinity is all around us': soprano...
Sunday, 12 January 2020
In 2010, my best friend and I made a whimsical decision to go backpacking in India over the Easter break. I had developed an interest in Eastern...
Planting seeds for change: Helen Wallace on a year of seminal events at Kings Place
Women composers to the fore in the innovative arts centre's 'Nature Unwrapped' |
Celebrating the musicals of Jerry Herman (1931-2019)
An immortal lyricist and composer leaves us plenty to be joyful about |
theartsdesk in Zurich and Tallinn: celebrating great Estonians
A Swiss inauguration for Paavo Järvi, a significant birthday for Erkki-Sven Tüür |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Semyon Bychkov in Prague
A tutorial on Smetana's epic of Czechia from the man its leading orchestra calls 'daddy' |
Remembering Mariss Jansons (1943-2019)
The great Latvian conductor has died at the age of 76, but he leaves a powerful legacy |
10 Questions for Techno Musician Carl Craig
Catching up with the prince of Detroit techno as he revives an old alter ego |
Is this Jimi Hendrix’s greatest posthumous release? Producer Eddie Kramer talks about a legendary live album
The complete set of Hendrix's Band of Gypsys performances at the Fillmore East is released this week |
theartsdesk in Warsaw: musical perspectives on culture beyond communism
Troubled history beneath the surface in festival of music from Poland and its neighbours |
'Shakespeare is mistakenly considered something for the elite': director Claire McCarthy on 'Ophelia'
Upcoming adaptation shines a new light on Shakespeare's famous tragic maiden |
Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Extract III of III - On Romeo and Juliet... Except Their Names Were Margarita and Abulfaz |
Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Extract II of III - On a Loneliness That Resembles Happiness |
'The Academy and I': composer and viola-player Sally Beamish on a special relationship
On composing anniversary pieces for an ensemble she knows from the inside |
Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Extract I of III - A Man's Story |
Music for Youth's Judith Webster: '91% of the young people we work with are from state schools'
As their big Albert Hall Proms approach, MFY's CEO explains the essentials |
'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn
The Dutch players speak as one on recording the Austrian composer's Op 20 |
First Person: Simon Stephens - the contemplation of kindness
A journey to the North, into the playwright's past, provides the genesis for ‘Light Falls’, opening at the Royal Exchange |
First Person: Hannah Khalil on museum as metaphor in her new play for the RSC
The playwright on 'A Museum in Baghdad', and how she discovered the story of Gertrude Bell |
‘We must not allow boorish, opportunistic autocrats to hijack music’: Gabriela Montero on life and art
The Venezuelan pianist and composer on the creative impulse and how she uses it |
The deathless Alicia Alonso, in person
Remembering the woman who was Cuban ballet's legend and monster |
theartsdesk at the Tsinandali Festival: young Caucasians join hands and instruments
World-class chamber players and young orchestras on a Georgian country estate |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
Extract III of III - She Rides along the Coast toward a Historic |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
Extract II of III - Days of the Dead |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
Extract I of III - Translations |
'A laboratory for everything': Jasper Parrott on the future of his classical music agency
As Harrison Parrott celebrates 50 years with concerts on Sunday, its main mover reflects |
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