The death this week of James Loughran called to mind a species of excellent British conductors who never pursued the limelight. Loughran’s 12 years at the Halle, succeeding the irreplaceable John Barbirolli, was a phenomenal […]
Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a fascinatingly international history, the work was written to a French libretto by a France-based American, premiered in German […]
The vast amount of media hype that puffed up the ‘record-breaking‘ sale of a Stradivarius violin owned by the New England Conservatory of Music went up in hot air at Sotheby”s last night. The instrument, […]