Berlin Phil comes out for Northern Ballet

From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]

Götterdämmerung Richard Wagner spent twenty-six years perfecting the final part of his Ring, from the first sketches for the scenario to the completion of the composition. The score is a fascinating blend of motifs from the […]

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has erased the names of board members from its website, along with all contact details, as an unnamed external investigator goes to work examining the organisation’s handling of a pro-Palestine pianist. […]