Leipzig : the city of music

I must admit I am fortunate. This is my fourth visit to Vienna in eight years, but it’s a city that never fails to excite me, surprise me and nourish me. The Austrian capital has many faces and the ri

Looking out of the living room window across the shores of Lake Lucerne, surrounded by photographs of family and friends and listening to the piano reverberate from the room next door, you’d be forgiv

Norman Lebrecht on Music HE WORKED SO ...

Sonatas Nos 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6; Sonata violino solo representativa in A major Rachel Podger (violin); Brecon Baroque Channel Classics CCS48525 70:08 mins No Arts Council funding was available to rescue

As Robert Hausmann played Dvořák’s Cello Concerto through, Johannes Brahms turned round to the composer and said, ‘If I had known that it was possible to write a cello concerto like this, I would have

While attendance at most churches has been in decline for many decades, a recent trend reversing this trajectory is emerging – that of attending evensong. Evensong (‘choral vespers’ if associated with