Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn

You might think that having Esa-Pekka Salonen quitting as music director would have mitigated the SFSO’s appetite for public conflict. Not a bit of it. Last week the musicians distributed leaflets before a concert honouring […]

Cellist Josep Castanyer Alonso of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a video of himself playing the Maria Carey hit in the style of six composers. Josep samples Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and […]

We have been informed of the death of the Italian bass-baritone Angelo Nardinocchi, always in the first cast for Rigoletto and a summer fixture at the Arena di Verona. He was also knwon for Leporello […]