Fiona Maddocks has a ball in The Observer, surveying a weekend in the country. Such a joy to read a music critic who selects adverbs with surgical precision and eschews adverbs like the proverbial pestilence: […]
The German town of Heimbach has named a road bridge to its power station in honour of the late Lars Vogt, founder of its music festival. Vogt, who died of cancer in September 2022, initiated […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]