Fiona Maddocks has a ball in The Observer, surveying a weekend in the country. Such a joy to read a music critic who selects adverbs with surgical precision and eschews adverbs like the proverbial pestilence: […]
The music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has cancelled his all-Beethoven Easter concerts. Jumping in are Rafael Payare (pic) and Franz Welser-Möst. The post Riccardo Chailly’s luck is out in Lucerne appeared first […]
The orchestra is bidding farewell to Alessandro Cappone, who is retiring from the first violin section after 44 years. His father, Giusto Cappone, was principal viola under Herbert von Karajan from 1958 to 1984. Alessandro […]