Tag: Wagner

• Why Simon Rattle is fed up with Britain

  Mar 7

  So you think the mood in Britain is gloomy? The view from Berlin looks even more apocalyptic, it seems. “If I were not British,” says Britain’s most celebrated conductor, “I… more ›

• Clarinet Gets Acrobatic Workout

  Feb 16

  In his brilliant Clarinet Concerto, Magnus Lindberg exploits myriad facets of what the instrument can do, from playing soaring melodic lines to making almost rude-sounding noises. He composed the work… more ›

• Corruption, intrigue… and that's before the Wagner's even begun

  Feb 9

  A scandal of Wagnerian proportions has engulfed Salzburg’s music festival, just weeks before Sir Simon Rattle conducts the German composer’s opera Götterdämmerung, a tale of corruption and downfall that now… more ›