Blomstedt’s discography is fairly voluminous, but even in the context of some exceptional recordings (including an impressive ...

In a Times interview earlier this year, tenor Roberto Alagna pointed out that, in terms of accessibility, opera ‘was never as popular as it is today’. He’s right. We live in an era of almost instant ...

You can take the composer out of Vienna, they say, but not if that composer is HK Gruber. In 2014 ‘Nali’ Gruber (at 83, he still goes by the ...

Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a ...

Bizet’s solo piano music is rarely encountered in the concert hall. Most standard reference books on piano repertoire omit ...