Saint-Saens alive! It’s cello heaven

The BBC Philharmonic has lost Mark Wigglesworth next Saturday ‘for personal reasons’. Flying in will be Yoel Gamzou, known for the sensitive performing edition he had published of Mahler’s 10th symphony. It’s his UK symphonic […]

String players are mourning the sudden passing of Professor Yizhak Schotten, a former player in the Boston Symphony who went on to become principal viola of the Cincinnati and Houston symphony orchestras. Six years ago […]

Dr Harry Brunjes, who has presided over ten years of destruction at English National Opera, is stepping down. He has resisted that move valiantly for a very long time. The good doctor may now enjoy […]