Medieval scholastics loved the term nunc stans, the “eternal now”, which first occurs in The Consolation of Philosophy by the Roman Boethius. For the past six weeks of the Corona Lockdown, we could be ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The outpouring of recognition, condolence and grief that the death of Siegmund Nissel, second violinist of the ...

The violinist and leader of the Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin, who has died of cancer aged 82, was a soloist who seldom played solo, a natural autocrat who loved an argument, and a Viennese ...

LONDON (JTA) — Martin Lovett, a British cellist and the last surviving member of the world renowned Amadeus String Quartet, died in London on April 29 after contracting COVID-19. He was 93. The ...

Lovett was the youngest member of the Amadeus String Quartet, whose other players were all Jewish refugees from Austria. LONDON (JTA) — Martin Lovett, a British cellist and the last surviving member ...

For 40 years, the British cellist performed with the Amadeus Quartet – one of the leading chamber ensembles of the 20th century. British cellist Martin Lovett, best known as a member of the Amadeus ...