It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]
The Limelight 2024 Australian Artist of the Year was announced last night. Chosen by a panel of critics, Australia’s leading artist of 2024 turns out to be the British pianist Jayson Gillham. Gillham was fired […]