Classical music

Opera fans will be familiar with Huw Montague Rendall’s surnames – from his mezzo-soprano mother Diana and tenor father David respectively – but...

This is the Trio Bohémo’s first CD, and it’s an immensely promising debut. Schubert’s great E flat Piano Trio D929 and Smetana’s Trio...

There was nothing unusual – the world being as it is – in the fact that Hulk Hogan was one of more erudite...

Of the eight works that Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake play on this disc – seven by Robert Schumann and one by his...

Pitch darkness. Then a single spotlight on a piano in the middle of the stage. A figure walks on – head down, almost...

Barely nine months after the final release in Deutsche Grammophon’s latest survey of the Shostakovich symphonies (with Andris Nelsons and the Boston orchestra),...

‘I sing for myself,” Carmen insists, and you believe it when Aigul Akhmetshina sings her – as the 28-year-old mezzo-soprano from rural Bashkortostan...