The City of Oxford Orchestra has given its final concert, after 60 years. The programme was Glinka overture, Rach 2, Tchaik 5. Before the concert, the orchestra’s director Lindsay Sandison explained why it would be […]
I’ve started the year with quite a few less-than-stimulating new Classical recordings released in the past couple of months. While many are attractive, offering enticing repertoire, several of them have left me feeling a bit […]
For his last concert as music director at SWR in Stuttgart, the Putin conductor Teodor Currentzis chose Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Nothing controversial about that. Until a Russian tenor in the SWR Vokal-Ensemble, Alexander Yudenkov, […]