In The Bleak Midwinter – Wigmore Hall Why is this the world’s most popular Christmas carol? Its message (thanks to Christina Rosetti) is miserable and, what’s more, inaccurate. Assuming that Jesus was in fact born in […]
The festival has put out an account of the great pianist’s regular involvement, starting with his debut in … Krenek’s second piano concerto. It makes the point that Brendel was made to wait until his […]
After our recent trip to Waterloo for Lyatoshynsky Symphony No, 3, with the London Philarmonic under Vladimir Jurowski, I thought it was time to dig little deeper into the music of this composer, and on […]