The BBC Proms 2022: July 19
What better way to test the Royal Albert Hall’s new air cooling system than to subject it to a late Prom on the hottest London night ever. Hooray, it passed!…
Bachfest Leipzig II
..this festival was one of the most inspiring I have been to in many years – a model of how to use a contemporary city to bring to life the most rewarding music….
Bachfest Leipzig I
When CPE Bach programmed a charity concert in Hamburg on 9 April 1786 he unwittingly proved to us two centuries later that he was as good an artistic director as he was a composer…
Dresden Festival 2022
Dresden is looking very smart these days and, judging by the number of visitors thronging the central square, the Neumarkt, and its cafés, doing very nicely in the early Summer sunshine…
Hallé – Vaughan Williams
This is England’s most intelligent conductor meeting the country’s greatest symphonist with its most consistently excellent orchestra: hard to better…