From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no […]
A Hamburg court has ruled in favour of the gadfly website Backstage Classical, which had been subjected to a cease-and-desist injunction by the Salzburg Festival artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser. Backstage publisher Axel Brüggemann had been […]
The Chinese pianist was one of the torchbearers for about three minuites ahead of the Paris Olympics yesterday. He wore a jersey marked 33, signifying that these are the 33rd modern Olympic Games. The post […]