L’Itinéraire! The joyous centrepoint of Baroque Itinéraire 2024

Happy birthday to People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director and principal conductor of the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev. All round, the best Tchaikovsky conductor of his time. Certainly in the ballets and […]

This is journalism in the raw, Tim Page telephoning Glenn Gould in October 1980. Tim kept the tapes, which have now been uploaded online by the Gould Foundation. ‘I want this to be a different […]

The over-booked Finn had a hard time at his Vienna Philharmonic debut this weekend with Mahler’s sixth Symphony. The experienced critic for Der Standard, Stefan Ender, found the performance  ‘incredibly loud’, resulting in ‘a levelling […]