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The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]

Alan Gilbert: Very few people have had such an impact on my musical life as Christoph von Dohnányi, here in a picture from after conducting a memorable Deutsches Requiem. Esa-Pekka and I were just this […]

Zachary Woolfe, chief music critic of the New York Times, has written a detailed, damning review of Klaus Mäkelä’s Carnegie Hall concerts with the Concertgebouw orchestra. Mäkelä is 28. He is head of major orchestras […]