The conductor, 97, gives a reflective interview to Markus Thiel. Sample quotes: There is so much wonderful music that I would like to perform and that could change me. But you just don’t have that […]
Ath the season-opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the Hamburg audience warmly applauded after each of the first two movements of Mahler’s first symphony. Is this new normal, asks one of our […]
A number of reports are suggesting that the Lang Lang effect is wearing off among the Chinese middle-classes. New piano sales in China are thought to be down to half of the peak 400,000 and […]