Slipped Disc

From my new essay in The Critic: The biggest noise to be heard in orchestral music is not the click and whirr of audience smartphones shooting TikTok clips in the slow movement. Nor is it […]

We understand that the entertaining Igudesman & Joo are about to announce their retirement from the stage at the end of next year. The violin-piano duo will have been performing together for two decades, which […]

The Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels shortly after midnight.The first prize is worth 25,000 Euros. Second and third places went to Americans – Joshua Brown (20k) and Elli Choi(17k). […]

By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s  ​ Click here to read Here’s a must-read article by Shannon Vittoria from the Met Museum’s Perspectives series about how women emerged as active creators of art […]

Death and the Kings Horseman – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent Written by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka and inspired by a true story, this stunning play celebrates a community striving to uphold its […]

Janet Cowperthwaite, who has managed the pioneering group for 43 years is stepping aside: ‘When I first met Kronos in 1981, I was a college student. I could not have imagined the amazing world that […]

Violinist Vishal Subramanian won the concerto competition in his senior school year and chose to play Sibelius – only for the fire alarm to be sounded. The school is Adlai E. Stevenson High School District […]

Christoph Eschenbach has cancelled his second week in Israel after falling unaccountably unwell. The Philharmonic are using his withdrawal to make a huge fuss of a young Israeli substitute. Rotem Nir, 26, is head of […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week. … This is the best I have heard from Mäkelä on record. With a febrile soloist, he both anticipates and accommodates her whims, muting the orchestra or letting […]

The sinister BDS is calling for ‘creative, peaceful pressure’ on the prog-rock group Radiohead to ‘convincingly distance itself’ from Israel. The euphemisms here are insidious. Radiohead’s creative force Johnny Greenwood is married to an Israeli […]