In the first of a series of Podcasts devoted to the 2013 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, harpsichordist Andreas Staier talks to Martin Cullingford about his winning disc '…pour passer la mélancolie ...

In November 2011, Tamesis Chamber Choir gave a concert, ‘A Time to Mourn’, to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. Such was the audience’s emotional response that the choir decided to record a CD. The ...

A recent Radio World story on the 30th anniversary of the invention of the compact disc (“From Pinkeltje to Ubiquity: CD Turns 30,” May 20) prompted me to compare the CD with my grandfather’s first ...

As for the onset of achievement, I’d suggest the year 1967: an annus mirabilis for an already astonishingly complete pianist and a partly fledged conductor en route to greater things. The young ...

This edited article by Wei Yan Aung is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished by Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. In the early 1960s, when ...