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Jonathan Manners has been appointed Director of the BBC Singers ‘following a competitive recruitment process’. Manners has been the group’s producer since 2016, responsible for artistic direction and broadcast output. He says: ‘I am thrilled […]

A weekly review from our critic-in-residence, Alastair Macaulay: The tenor Ian Bostridge is sixty, but sounds much younger. On Sunday 6 July, he and the master Schubertian pianist Steven Osborne gave a recital of Schubert’s […]

The conductor, 97, gives a reflective interview to Markus Thiel. Sample quotes: There is so much wonderful music that I would like to perform and that could change me. But you just don’t have that […]