Had you been at John Wilson's Respighi spectacular on Friday, or heard it on BBC Radio 3/watched it on BBC Four, you might have perceived last night's journey up and down Richard Strauss's Bavarian ...

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating. The globalisation of music culture, from ultra mainstream to underground, in the ...

One thing's for certain: the CBSO has done it again in appointing the best of Music Directors. Yamada took over from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in 2024, and this is the first time I've heard him work with ...

London was where James Taylor got his big break when, after a rocky, drug-strewn apprenticeship in New York City, he ...

The air is thick with theatrical smog… then comes prolonged darkness. Gradually, a dull glimmer of warm light reveals a ...

Forget Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with bells, cannons and military bands (most people have, but it was my introduction to ...

"It was insanely excellent," enthused one of the Järvi Academy Symphony Orchestra's young musicians about the Estonian ...

It’s always a pleasure to meet again with Charles Lloyd, whose sweet and expressive tone first enchanted me as a teenager in ...

Can the 1916 Prologue of Strauss and Hofmannsthal added to a revised version of a 1912 opera-within-a-play setting the ...

If the secret of comedy is timing and location, location, location determines a property’s success, then the producers of ...

You don't have to be mad to enjoy Gerald Barry's methodically berserk approach to Wilde, but your wits might have begun to ...

Social engineering gets a bad press. The whiff of creating a eugenics-inspired master race by other means clings to it, so ...