Joyce Didonato - Heggie/mcnally: Great ScottLife meets art Joyce DiDonato stars in a live world premiere recording of an opera written for her: Great Scott by Jake Heggie In Great Scott, the Kansas born mezzo soprano, one of today's best loved classical singers, creates a role conceived specifically with her in mind. The character she plays, Arden Scott, just happens to be an opera star, and she is the lynchpin of what Fred Plotkin of WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station,

Sergej Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony "communicates

urgently called for concertos to be played by Bach himself as soloist

There's no let-up with the sparkling 'Reconsider' which sounds an awful lot like Daft Punk meets Nile Rodgers (prescient as ever

It was the smaller

search for essential supplies amid the rubble

then 86-year old jazz singer

Dick Conte-Steve Heckman Quartet with Akira Tana and Steve Webber

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) entered the Ursuline Convent in the Piedmontese city of Novara at the age of 16

be sure to remove one's shoes at the door

Purists may frown but such arrangements

It's a bold look to the future

Shoegaze and Post Punk