This month: Janáček's Katya Kabanova from the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, Handel's Theodora by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Marc-André Hamelin plays his own piano music
The full title of this article is “From mini Mars bars to matters of life or death: Errollyn Wallen on becoming a composer.” Errollyn Wallen is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer and performer, considered to be one of the top 20 most performed living composers of classical music in the world. Here are excerpts…
In an exclusive extract from her new book the musician recalls the shift from concertgoer to concert-giver – and how it involved chocolate, and explains why opera composers lie, cheat, steal, murder and live to tell the tale
As the BBC programme celebrates a milestone, Donald Macleod – in the presenter’s chair for almost 25 years – reflects on its storytelling power and shares his own tales of Hollywood and handstands