Watch: It’s a Schoenberg opening night

The ever-popular Michael Murray died last week at the age of 81. A student of Marcel Dupré, whose biography he would write, Murray was organist of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 31 […]

Message from a frustrated reader: Dear Mr Lebrecht, I recently created a small concert series with my sister, Harriet Mackenzie (https://harrietmackenzie.com/) presenting some legendary pieces of classical repertoire. In order to promote our series we […]

Players learned earlier this week that the orchestra’s Candian concertmaster, Martin Chalifour, is leaving at the end of this season. A chamber music concert has been hastily organised in his honour on November 23. Chalifour, […]