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The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili has walked out on HarrisonParrott after 27 years. She has joined up instead with second-gen management at Impresariat Simmenauer in Berlin. Her transition may be linked to the recent retirement […]

The Bishop of Fulham has formally apologised for interrupting an evening concert in a London church while in his dressing-gown and ordering the choir and audience to go home. A church statement reads: ‘Bishop Jonathan […]

From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]