Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

There has long been a theory that the German master lives on in the form of Valery Gergiev, the post-Soviet conductor who provided cultural reassurance and stability for the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin as […]

Ath the season-opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the Hamburg audience warmly applauded after each of the first two movements of Mahler’s first symphony. Is this new normal, asks one of our […]

Then enterprising siooloist Charles Castleman has entrusted his 1707 ‘Marquis de Champeaux’ Stradivarius violin to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels. Castleman came fifth in the Queen Elisabeth competition in 1963 and maintained a […]