It’s Yuja’s birthday today

During Covid lockdown, a group of artists applied to the courts in Munich to declare the Government’s closure of concert halls illegal. The group included the singer Christian Gerhaher (pic), the conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and […]

The Chinese-American pianist is playing a four-hand recital with the Icelandic star Víkingur Ólafsson one night in November. Seats in the main stalls area of the Royal Festival Hall are priced at £160. That’s steep. […]

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]