The leading Ukrainian composer, living in German exile since 2022, defies categorisation. Under Soviet rule, Valentin Silvestrov maintained an aloofness from imposed styles, ignoring political…
When John Cage came to Moscow in the summer of 1988 it was not so much a convergence of opposites as a validation of the…
No label generates such a buzz around new releases as the quirky Munich-based ECM which, after 48 years of high output, still manages to produce…
