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The orchestra has spent the weekend at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, southern Italy. Riccardo Muti conducted Rossini’s William Tell Overture and Verdi’s Vespri Sicialiani, followed by Brahms’ Second Symphony. Just like olden times.   […]

It’s ‘the only way I can travel without feeling guilty,’ says gamba player Sarah Small. From a BBC News report: A musician has completed a 10-week cycling tour of Great Britain with her beloved viola […]

This week’s review of London performances by our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: Everything about Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome” is specific, atmospheric, descriptive. We know where in the East we are, at what point in […]