From Norman Stinchcombe’s review of an excellent concert of English music, marred only by… To whoever is responsible: please, please (please x 10²) stop these meandering, tiresome, tedious Kazuki Yamada addresses to the audience. This […]
We have met the super Ciaroscuro Quartet on a number of occasions, most saliently in Haydn in the first three of the Op. 76 Quartets here and in the balancing three (Nos. 4-6) here; but […]
The Swiss flute player Sebastian Jacot, denied tenure after two years as principal at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, has just issued a cryptic assessment of his situation: After 12 years in Germany—seven of them in […]