Remembering Rostropovich
A defender of the arts during authoritarian rule
The Inimitable Christian Ferras
What darkness lay beneath his excellence?
A Tale of Two Concerts
Music meant politics at Richard Nixon’s second inauguration
The Old Master
Neville Marriner breathed new life into Baroque music, with a sense of drive and panache
It Beggared All Description
The famous flop that opened the Met
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
Winter Classical Music
Ten pieces to warm your ears
Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
