From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no […]
Twenty years after his lovely death, apparently by his own hand, Carlos Kleiber stands out in memory as the most accomplaished conductor the world has ever seen. Every Carlos performance – and there were not […]
He didn’t live to be 80 or anything like it. Bob Marley died, aged only 36 , but his musical influence didn’t die with him. He was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist born eighty […]