How to play Webern’s 6 easy pieces

Here’s another screed of posted by Emma Stenning’s regime at Birmingham’s troubled orchestra. The text is lacking in specifics. It proclaims a welcome, then utters threats. You’d need a psychoanalyst to explain what prompted it. […]

You might think that having Esa-Pekka Salonen quitting as music director would have mitigated the SFSO’s appetite for public conflict. Not a bit of it. Last week the musicians distributed leaflets before a concert honouring […]

The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]