Suffice it to say that Sham’s Scriabin Sonata No 10 was more structural than sexy, with the thematic and decorative components delineated in multi-dimensional perspective, and the long chains of ...

A rest day in the competition gives Jed Distler time to reflect on Van Cliburn – American icon, cultural ambassador, and ...

With the death of Per Nørgård at the age of 92 following a long illness, Nordic music has lost a patriarchal figure and the wider contemporary music world has lost an artist of colossal imagination ...

Musically, the production is a triumph on all counts. The lead singers are a testament to the German Fest system: a world-class cast drawn almost entirely from salaried employees of the company Ian ...

It proved to be a great operatic experience. If Harris’ production laid the firmest foundations for the piece, singing of superior quality and certainly on a suitably Verdian scale fleshed out its ...

This year's competitors have a rest day, so Jed Distler looks back 20 years to The Cliburn medallists of 2005: Sa Chen, Joyce Yang and Alexander Kobrin ...

The recital featured rare songs by Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Gounod and Viardot ...

Time stood still as Johnson floated the delicate melodic threads of Shostakovich’s A major Prelude, No 7, which melted right into the gently interweaving counterpoint of Brahms’s Op 76 No 4. By ...

Not one note fell under the table, not one phrase emerged without meaning'. Jed Distler finds at least one marvellous set in today's Cliburn Competition Preliminaries ...