Be sure to watch this wonderful short video from the Philharmonie de Paris. Yes, Ravel’s Boléro Is a Masterpiece by Barry Lenson Like many people, I never thought of Boléro as Ravel’s greatest work – […]
The London Symphony Orchestra has notified us of the death of Brian Clarke, its co-principal viola from 1970 to 1999. Brian, who was 92, came from a mining family in Rotherham, Yorkshire. He won his […]
In the latest tug-of-war between the Monteverdi and Orchestra and its dismissed founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the MCO has revived the SDG record label that the conductor founded after his falling out with Deutsche […]