Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

The estimable chamber music venue on Wigmore Street has told the funding body that it is no longer fit for purpose, accusing Arts Council England of an ‘abandonment of excellence.’ Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly has […]

The budget label made its critical breakthrough in the late 1990s with a cycle of Bruckner symphonies conducted by the little-known Canada-based conductor Georg Tintner. A Hitler exile from Vienna, Tintner brought idiomatic assurance to […]

We have been notified of the death of Liana Isakadze, a generous and gofted Georgian violinist who carried the flame of her teacher David Oistrakh around the world. It was Oistrakh who brought her to […]