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Sir Charles Mackerras, who died on 14 July aged 84, was a conductor and musicologist, and introduced the passionate and heartfelt music of Leoš Janáček to British audiences. Detractors, however, dubbed him “Chuck ’em Up Charlie” for his fre (read full article)
I’ve just bought the Runnicles/BBCSO Tristan und Isolde. I played the Liebestod and was surprised and annoyed at the burst of applause and cheers at the end. I know it’s a recording of a live-in-front-of-an-audience concert, but I feel that keep (read full article)
I must say, having listened recently to Benjamin Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius that like cholesterol there is good and bad vibrato. Yvonne Minton (what a beautiful voice) represents the good creative use of vibrato whereas Peter Pe (read full article)
Herbert Von Karajan is quoted as saying that Gidon Kremer was, for him, the greatest violinist he ever worked with. (Well, until Anne-Sophie Mutter arrived on the scene.) I haven’t heard him a great deal but, although he can undoubtedly play with (read full article)
The BBC Proms starts tomorrow. An interesting fun piece on the Today programme the other day, someone complaining about inappropriate Proms behaviour, mainly too much clapping between movements and in particular too quick to clap after the beauty of (read full article)
I’ve just heard the sad news that Ted Downes has died, with his wife, both of them drinking a fatal draft of poison at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. The son of the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan described today how his pa (read full article)
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