The Boston Pops soloist this weekend was the city mayor, Michelle Wu. Yuja’s got some way to go. Wu 吳弭 said: It’s why I love this city: I had a wonderful time performing “Rhapsody in […]
The Hiong Kong Philharmonic has named the Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokowski as its music director from next year. He succeeds Jaap Van Zweden, who held the job for a dozen years whil juggling other appointments […]
In the last of the present Lebrecht Interviews on BBC Radio 3, I asked Itzhak Perlman for his thoughts on the present situation in Israel, where he was born and grew up. Itzhak gave a […]