New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

Message received: A Season To Sing is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s enduringly popular set of violin concertos, The Four Seasons, first published 300 years ago in 1725. RSCM composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is rearranging […]

A critic at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro informs us that an enormous Palestine flag was unfurled across the entire stage on the closing night of  Cambiale de Matrimonio. Our observer says: ‘After the enthusiastic […]

Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes:     The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]