As soon as we got the piano, I was able to play it the same day. Something I’d heard on TV, radio, I was able to repeat ...

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including a Shostakovich festival in Germany, the Cleveland Orchestra’s Strauss and Nina Stemme’s Isolde.

The life of Hitler’s favourite filmmaker offers a blueprint for understanding the rise of fascist aesthetics today ...

In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.