So who’s the jumping conductor?

The versatile German mezzo-soprano is midway through her second career as an opera and festival director. She has engagements until 2029 and has not completely given up thought of singing again, she says. The Lebrecht […]

Denmark started broadcasting in 1925 and DR immediately adopted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra as its radio ensemble. The BBC Symphony was not founded until 1930. The Danes will take a centennial tour around European […]

Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten The two most significant composers of their generation – Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland – both died this week in, respectively, 1976 and 1990. (So did Cicero but he died […]