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I'm seriously behind here on all the summer activities. I've been to the wonderful Tuscan music festival Incontri in Terra di Siena ...

Joszef Lendvay (son) and Joszef Csoci Lendvai (father) in full flight with Fischer & the BFO Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou I review...

The PRS for Music Foundation's Europe-wide Keychange project , a large-scale initiative to tackle gender equality in the music business,...

Barenboim raises a hand with his Berlin Staatskapelle. (Photo: bbc.co.uk) Three days into the Proms and it's already clear that the...

The American tenor Michael Spyres has taken an impressive and unusual highway through the operatic world. Hailing from a musical family in...

I've written a vaguely grumpy piece for the Independent about why this year's Proms programme feels just that bit meh. I've only...

Some very welcome news yesterday from the Proms, which has appointed a new director at long last. And it's not a BBC insider with an axe...

The thin end of one wedge is webcasting. I was supposed to be in Verbier now. Long boring story about storms, leaks and missed planes. I was...

Over at Independent Towers there's a certain pride in this piece. A few years back, when Josh Bell did his famous busking-in-the-Wash...

The sun is shining, Andy Murray's in the final and next week it's time for the Proms to begin. This season is stuffed full of Wag...

Alma Schindler/Mahler/Gropius/Werfel was born on this day in 1879. As her first husband did not exactly encourage her compositional activiti...

Here's my review for The Independent of the last night of Barenboim & the WEDO's Beethoven cycle, head to head with the Olympic ...

Here's my review for The Independent of last night's Prom: Barenboim & the WEDO again, and they're just getting better and b...

Yes, it's Pierre Boulez. Hearing his Derive 2 at the Barenboim/WEDO Prom somehow resembled discovering a new deep-sea creature that ...

I've been talking to Daniel Barenboim and his violinist son, Michael , about their burgeoning dynasty. They're respectively conduct...

They open on Friday 13th and they have to hold their own against nothing less than the Olympics. Can they do it? You bet they can. Here...

Tasmin Little's Proms Plus literary talk with Anne McElvoy was broadcast in the concert interval on BBC Radio 3 yesterday, with extracts...

"When 5000 people pay to listen to Bach on a solo violin, there's hope for Western civilisation," says The Times. My colleag...

Congratulations to STEPHEN LLEWELLYN, winner of the JDCMB 'Chacun a son gout' competition. Yes, bizarrely enough, that is indeed the...