Since so many of you fell about over Dudley Moore’s Beethoven variations, here’s his take-off on Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Followed by a pre-Cabaret

There is no cogent reason, other than tradition and musicians’ convenience, that concerts start at 7.30 or 8 pm. Over time, patterns of life have

Nothing beats Satie. There are plenty of poor chillers out there. This is one of the coolest. This ain’t bad, either.

The Boston Symphony is going ahead in a couple of hours with its new-season launch. It will be remembered most for this preamble: IMPORTANT MESSAGE

An occasional diary from Anthea Kreston For a while, I woke up every 45 minutes, checking the news, checking on the children and husband, organizing

The harpsichordist Elizabeth de la Porte has died aged 78. Born in Johannesburg in 1941, she studied at the Vienna Academy and the Royal College

From a Guardian report from Berlin: …Lothar Wieler, the head of the German government’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, specifically warned on Tuesday

Boutique agency Primo Artists has taken on the North and South America representation of James Gaffigan, chief conductor of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Gaffigan, 40, is

We hear that Alexander Buhr, former danaging director of Decca Classical, has joined Sony Classical as head of A&R based in Berlin. Alex, when I

The American organist Cameron Carpenter has put his instrument on the back of a truck and is driving around Berlin, playing outside care homes over

press release: With their European concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko are supporting UNICEF’s emergency assistance for the protection of child