On Music

The eye of the storm

Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Some very healthy early music canaries

Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)

Pomp and circumstance

A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square

Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?

Gergiev’s road to redemption

Music’s moral conscience

The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world

The concert hall of the future

A performance space without walls or limits

Unfinished? Don’t start!

A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy

High-voltage Haitink recalled

Bernard Haitink, who died last month, was a conducting master

Spare us the skintight sonata

If Yuja Wang were to strip everything right down to the music, she could be a sensation

Passing on the batons

The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America