From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: So commanding was Alfred Brendel in Schubert’s piano music that other pianists complain they can’t get him out of their fingers. It’s two decades or more since Brendel […]
Just another headline-grabbing blast from the Vivaldi peddler: Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violinist, has said “boring” concert programme notes are ruining classical music. He told The Telegraph that a “plague of experts” were distracting audiences […]
From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]