Mademoiselle was not much of a composer, too set on correct form to allow the flight of inspiration

Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis

Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem covers a gamut of moods, from pity to passion

I’m not giving up trying to persuade younger people to listen to new composers

The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy

Wagner’s sexual ambiguity spoke to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Mann, says Norman Lebrecht

This is music that is going nowhere

Music from the Hungarian educator who shaped the sound of the modern American orchestra

A marvellous blend of early Baroque and Mediterranean traditional songs

Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave