Fine Music Magazine
Book 1: On 10 May 1871, the Treaty of Frankfurt was signed, establishing the agreement between France and Prussia in the aftermath of the War of 1870...
On Sunday 11 July – which is as close to Bastille Day as a Sunday Special could get – I’ll be taking a look through the centuries at what composers do when...
I guess most music lovers have heard the cruel but funny song that American mathematics professor Tom Lehrer wrote about Alma Schindler: Her lovers were many and varied...
Rossini admired the Spanish tenor, Manuel Garcia, so much that he created the role of Count Almaviva for him in The barber of Seville which premiered in 1816.
