The orchestra takes up a six-day residency this week with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and pianist Yuja Wang. The residency includes four orchestra concerts at the Shanghai Grand Theatre with works by Johannes Brahms, Richard […]
Every once in a while a disc comes along which is so pleasant – and such a pleasant surprise – it brings smile after smile. This disc of orchestral music from the unjustly neglected British […]
The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s. His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric […]