A piece of Pires

At yesterdday’s opening of the Salzburg Festival, a speech by Minister of Culture Andreas Babler at the Felsenreitschule was interrupted by shouts of “Stop the genocide” and “Free Gaza now”, and the unfurl;ing of banners. The […]

Don’t bother calling the Philharmonie box-office. A five-night series of classical guitar concerts, headlined by the Catelnuovo-Tedesco and Rodrigo concertos, has completely sold out. The fingers behind it belong to rising Warner artist Thibaut García. […]

The death has been reported of David Cripps, principal horn of the London Symphony Orchestra in the glory years, 1974-1983. He played under Andre Previn and Claudio Abbado, was the first to plerform John Williams’s […]