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Master Musician – Great Pianist Now that he has retired from the concert platform, do we call him a past master? No, he is still in our mind...

The Overture, Concerto, Symphony concert programme that existed for such a long time seems to have been overtaken by the American habit of a...

Jones Brilliant Production "I prefer Offenbach to Bach often" – Also sprach Sir Thomas Beecham. So, hurry to the London Coliseum w...

6th Covent Garden Revival The revival of Mozart’s COSI fan TUTTE at Covent Garden, Friday, January 27th, was like a curate’s egg. Not good ...

"Mr. Bream" asked the German Ambassador after young Julian played some solos "you play this Spanish music so marvellous, you ...

In the nineteen-thirties Walter Legge, the great record producer, ran the Sibelius society, a collection of albums containing six of seven 7...

Tomlinson Wins the Prize but not the girl We all know that Wagner's Mastersingers of Nürnberg is about a singing competition. At Coven...

200 Alleynians lustily singing the Gershwin indestructible tunes of Porgy and Bess was thrilling, heart-warming and mind-blowing. No doubt ...

Alice Sara Ott gave a piano recital on November 22 in Queen Elizabeth Hall. There was nothing unusual about the programme: Mozart late varia...

Having been a music critic for more than sixty years perhaps it is time to spill a bean or two. My first bean is dated 1951 when I was not o...

To Parson's Green, SW6, to talk to my favourite baritone, not only mine but everybody's who has had the luck to hear him. His is not...

Onegin at the Coliseum Eugeny/Eugene Onègin stands out amongst the operas of Tchaikovsky; none of the others have so securely captured the h...

On October 24 the English Opera Company at the Coliseum ventured for the first time into the world of French baroque opera with a run of Ram...

TWO WINNERS, ONE ALSO RAN The Wexford Opera Festival has since 1951 been famous for its championing of works rare and neglected. It was star...

Malcolm Arnold's 90th birthday was celebrated October 21 – 23 in the Royal Derngate Concert Hall in Northampton, his birthplace. This wa...

Do you live near a cinema that shows the New York Metropolitan opera performances? They are £25 a go and worth your consideration. I saw Wal...

But one that did not contain a note of any of the Strauss family and began with Johann Sebastian Bach! However, it did contain two numbers b...

Which composer would be more insulted by the suggestion that Donizetti was the Lloyd Webber of his day? For in 1840s the Italian composer ha...

The scene is a big, high, bricked, L-shaped space. The printed programme doesn't give the venue a name it but it is in the middle of Sh...