Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count of the Beethoven violin concerto with, near the end of the first movement, a solo cadenza that may have been written by Beethoven. Except it’s not etnirely […]

The SF Symphony Orchestra has announced seven new recruits for what will be Esa-Peklka Salonen’s final season as music director. We hpope they know what they’re diving into. The newbies are: Bass Trombone Christopher Bassett, […]

She played one of Schumann’s Kinderszenen in memory of a beloved, ‘fantastic’ colleague, Maria Tipo, who died this week. ‘She will be missed’ said Martha. The post Watch: Martha Argerich plays tribute to ‘inspirational’ Maria […]