From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to […]
Last week we reported much dissatisfaction with the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who reverted from a Beethoven recital on his UK tour to last year’s tried-and-tested Goldberg Variations. The switch was all the more aggravating […]
There is a nationwide decline in organists and to try and stem this the Royal College of Organists (RCO) is devoting 2025 to its Play the Organ campaign, aiming not just to increase the number of people […]