SALZBURG’S FLUTE IS NOT WITHOUT MAGIC
Last night I attended the first performance of my week in Salzburg during the conclusion of the Summer Festival. It...
The Astonishing George Benjamin: A Composer for our Age
I made it my business to explore the music of my contemporary George Benjamin in recent months, and was wondrously...
Ticciati’s Last Bow as Principal Conductor: SCO Performs Brahms
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Robin Ticciati Johannes Brahms: Symphonies 1-4 18 and 19 August 2018 Usher Hall, Edinburgh Edinburgh International Festival Listening to Brahms’ complete symphony cycle is a tremendous emotional journey, and there could have been nobody better than Robin Ticciati...
Voices of India
The first edition of the national singing competition, Voices of India, will take place at the National Centre for Performing...
Master Works
Next month, the Symphony Orchestra of India will begin its Autumn 2018 Season with compositions from some of the greatest...
Rattle’s Debut as LSO’s Music Director on the EIF Stage
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances op. 72 Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta Krystian Zimerman, Piano 10 August 2018 Usher Hall, Edinburgh Edinburgh International Festival When I first heard three years...
LA FEDELTÀ PREMIATA (THE GIFT OF FIDELITY) AT THE ROH, MUMBAI
Those of us present at Mumbai’s century-old Opera House between 1-3 August were lucky enough to be treated to a really...
The Capital City Minstrels UK Tour – With Love, From India (June 1-15, 2018)
We were performing the last song for the evening to a packed hall at St. Mary’s Church in Haddington (Scotland)....