New online: Kaija Saariaho’s violin concerto

Agam Berger, seized in pyjamas and held in Hamas tunnels for 15 months, was returned home today. Local reports say that the Israeli army had her violin waiting to greet her at the reception centre. […]

That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne. It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La […]

We hear that Graham Walker, Director of the recently scrapped St John’s Voices Choir, has not been resting on laurels. He is the force behind the new Cambridge University Schola Cantorum, the university’s first liturgical […]