Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

A couple of weeks ago, Yusif Eyvazov changed managements. Nothing earth-shattering about that except that it was a move he made alone, independently of his powerful wife, the soprano Anna Netrebko. Today, the couple announced […]

Miles Davis – So What Some years ago, while moving house, I decided to limit myself to packing just one music recording per genre. For jazz, I picked Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. I still have it […]

The conductor has written a fond tribute to his longtime friend and mentor. Hard even to know where to start with Alfred: for any musician of my generation he was simply always there, the very […]