Tag: Classical music

Benjamin Britten represents old-fashioned values we’d d...

Despite his reputation as a conservative figure, the composer’s ability to explo...

Maybe only a Russian can bring out the soul of Russian ...

It’s an old superstition, but it was given more fodder by the Royal Philharmonic...

Orchestras are in financial peril. Here’s why a revolut...

Ideologues may want more diversity, but genuine innovation – and taking the audi...

Shostakovich’s First at 100 – how prodigious genius sou...

The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first t...

Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Lemminkäinen Suite album rev...

In this all-Sibelius disc, violinist Ava Bahari’s account of the Violin Concerto...

LSO/Treviño/ Kopatchinskaja review – he conducts with a...

Robert Treviño’s sure hand led the London Symphony Orchestra through mystical Me...

We should still listen to Russian music – and there’s n...

One of the nation’s finest composers had no part in the present, or even the pas...