New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

Last night’s late-breaking news that Katharina Wagner had been renewed for five more years as artistic director of  the Bayreuth allowed millions of Germans to sleep soundly in their beds. Katharina, 45, is the great-grandchild […]

Here’s this week’s Applce Classical streaming top ten, released exclusively on slippedisc. The fastest rising entrant is a confection of Beethoven for piano trio. On its ghastly cover, Yo Yo Ma looks like Gustav Mahler, […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The death of composer Alexander Goehr last August reminded obituarists of the vital contributions his refugee father Walter Goehr had made to insular British culture. Walter worked as […]