In tonight’s Lebrecht Interview, the conductor Mirga Grazinte-Tyla remembers the night the Russians tried to reimpose their rule on her native Lithuania. Mirga ran barefoot into the night behind her father, who was determined to […]
Miachael Sanderling (son of the great Kurt Sanderling) is a conductor I am aching to hear live. His contribution to this remarkable disc of Grieg and Schumann piano concertos with Elisabeth Leonskaja was notable indeed; […]
The Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has been confirmed as Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival until 2031. Bartoli, 59, has been in the job since 2012. ‘Cecilia Bartoli and her conceptual farsightedness are a […]