Increasingly my concert-going experiences start long before the first note is played and extend beyond the music heard in the auditorium.
Elegant direction combined with a post-performance discussion brimming with natural rapport makes this digital stream something very special indeed. A blueprint.
Sir Simon Rattle to DCMS’ Oliver Dowden: “We are poised and ready for collaboration, to urgently save our industry and its thousands and thousands of jobs.” I read Sir Simon Rattle’s Times interview first thing on Sunday morning in bed as soon as I woke up. Take it from me this is not the best…
The crazy perfection of Dieter Ammann’s piano concerto, Sheku’s much-heralded performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and what happened when I bumped into a Proms commentator