This, as you may have surmised, is by way of prelude to a report of Mr. Koussevitzky’s local debut as a double bass virtuoso, and I might as well set down now that Mr. Koussevitzky’s virtuosity with ...

Forget becoming prime minister of Great Britain. The real badge of honour, as Sir Keir Starmer found out recently, is being ...

Whether opening this concert programme with Richard Strauss’s early Suite for winds, Opus 4, worked is debatable, but as a stand-alone it was as superbly executed as you would expect of the SCO’s wind ...

The Sinfonia da Camera, conducted by Ian Hobson, opened its 2025-26 season on Oct. 18. The music offered was by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, including Schumann’s Piano Concerto written ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

Sergey Khachatryan and the San Francisco Symphony, led by guest conductor David Afkham in his Symphony debut, deliver a ...

Nearly half of Sir Keir’s music choices for Private Passions are second movements of symphonies, concertos and sonatas. The ...