Saint-Saens alive! It’s cello heaven

The UK-raised conductor Sarah Ioannides has decided to leave Symphony Tacoma, in Washington state, after 12 years in charge.  She will depart next year. Ioannides, 52, was previously music director of the El Paso Symphony […]

Last month Covent Garden changed its brand to Royal Ballet and Opera. Today it announced Rolex as ‘principal partner’, whatever that might mean. Rolex makes watches exclusively for the super-rich. If that’s the image Covent […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t […]