Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn

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 […]

The death this week of James Loughran called to mind a species of excellent British conductors who never pursued the limelight. Loughran’s 12 years at the Halle, succeeding the irreplaceable John Barbirolli, was a phenomenal […]

 Elvis If he had lived, Elvis would have turned 90 today. Hard to imagine, isn’t it, Elvis Presley as an old man? He was so intrinsically part of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll and […]