Arguably the least musical US national anthem

The City of London has voted to spend £191m on renewing the Barbican arts centre, having abandoned plans to build a new concerthall eslewhere within its boundaries. But £191m is just 80 percent is what […]

The German violinist who has declared a boycott on Trump’s USA is mystified at the lack of protest among American musicians and institutions. In Zurich this week, he played the Ukrainian national anthem at his […]

In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.   “You try lots of things,” […]