Mahler 2: A design issue

No other newspaper would indulge in such monstrous self-regard when a major artist has died as the Times has done for Alfred Brendel. Not even a hint of a suggestion that its successive chief music […]

“CBS News Sunday Morning” has allocated its feelgood slot to the US-born Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, still working at 98. ‘It’s like intense sex,’ he says, ‘an extremely close relation’. Watch.     The post […]

Sunday’s annual charity fundraiser by the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier did not contain a single work by a German or Austrian composer. Very outward looking, especially towards the US. Here’s the rundown: George Enescu […]