Farewell to…

Great pianist who was self-taught from the age ...

By and large, we like to fill the pages of BBC Music Magazine with our enthusiasm for composers and performers alike – it’s a wonderful world out there, teeming with musical talent. However, perhaps w

Life on the outside It has been two ...

● ONE MORNING IN 2007 I KNOCKED at ...

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi