Month: November 2018

A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO FRANCO BUITONI MARKING 15 YEARS OF BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST The setting was a rain-swept, autumnal Sunday afternoon in the historic Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia in Italy.  The frequent downpours did not deter the hordes of people crowding into the centre for the annual Euro Chocolate Festival – and nor did it […]

Read more about Concert for Franco & BBT’s 15th Anniversary

In an article written for The Arts Desk, reprinted here with permission, the Calidore String Quartet contemplates music for its torn nation, as collected together on its debut Signum Classics CD, Resilience, supported by its BBT Fellowship 2016. Classical musicians spend much of their lives inhabiting the realms of the past. To effectively practice and […]

Read more about How Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Janáček and Golijov speak for our troubled times