Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

This week’s review of London performances by our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: Everything about Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome” is specific, atmospheric, descriptive. We know where in the East we are, at what point in […]

Southwark Cathedral has named Helen Smee as its next Director of Music. She is presently director of Frideswide Voices, the girls’ choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Before that, she was at Worcester College. She […]

Two of the most captivating violinists that ever drew bow across strings play the Beethoven concerto with the same conductor, the phlegmatic Sir Adrian Boult. Comparison does not get closer. The post Compare and contrast: […]