New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

Channelling Edward Moore – Met Museum Obsessions are fascinating. Here’s a splendid film about one woman’s job.  Eileen Travell  is a photographer at the Met. It is her voice telling us about the objects made […]

In April 1983, the classical music establishment was shaken to its suspender socks when Time magazine – still a power in the land – conducted a survey of US orchestras and came up with the […]

The Berlin University of the Arts has made known the death of its former cello professor Markus Nyikos, who died last month at the age of 76. Principal cellist of Festival Strings Lucerne and a […]