At last, Sweden will be able to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg brokered its accession with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appears as the only world leader capable of potentially brokering an end to the war in Ukraine.
“The Circus Princess is a typical Kálmán operetta,” explains operetta scholar Stefen Frey who is also the world’s leading authority on the Hungarian-born composer.
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Russia’s increasingly unpredictable war in Ukraine, coupled with Beijing’s desired objective to eclipse Washington as the world’s dominant power, is forcing the U.S. to content with a multipolar world.
Alissa Firsova comes from a musical family where both parents, Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020), are composers. Now, she’s following in their footsteps by carving out her own path; she’s finding inspiration from the style of the great German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949).
Maestro Daniel Grossman of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich is passionated about promoting the lesser-known Jewish composers.
Silvio Berlusconi served as Prime Minister in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He’s the longest serving Prime Minister in Italy’s post World War II history.
We discuss Sergei Rachmaninoff’s unmatched legacy with Professor Philip Bullock of Oxford University.
Fiona Maddocks is the founding editor of BBC Music Magazine as well as of Channel 4 and The Independent. Now, the celebrated music journalist is out with a new book on Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943); Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber, 2023).
Anna Fedorova is known as one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s (1873-1943) music.