Rachmaninov

All life goes into a book. Unless it’s a kiss’n’tell, this truth may bypass the reader. A study of steam trains or…

There are few experiences in the concert hall as thrilling as Andris Nelsons at full blast. The Latvian…

How Rachmaninov came to loathe his Prelude in C sharp minor…

You could almost feel the stakes, as pervasive as the smell of hot dogs from the cart on the corner of New…

Vasily Petrenko, rumoured to be taking over from HK Phil’s music director Jaap van Zweden, conducted with calm and…

Ethel Smyth’s music features prominently in this year’s Proms, and the centrepiece of the City of Birmingham…

The greatest lesson Ruth Slenczynska learned from the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov was that sounds have…