The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just completed a well-received tour of Japan. Not a word has appeared on the orchestra’s website, where the news section has not been updated since May 1. The […]
Here’s the Friday review by our resident critic Alastair Macaulay: by Alastair Macaulay On Wednesday 11 at the Festival Hall, the Philharmonia Orchestra presented a quadruple bill that should have been all Rs: its resident […]
The Prague composer Viktor Ullmann was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Theresiendstadt concentration camp before being sent to be killed in Auschwitz in October 1944. Ullmann is mostly remembered for his concentration camp opera, […]