"The prophets of Marxist-inspired modernism are in retreat right across the board. They are perplexed at how the world has gone. Their view has not prevailed, even in modern music. Everything, including our understanding of recent history, is up for grabs."

No Music Day gives us an opportunity to stop and think

At the Grafenegg outdoor music festival, funded by the Metternich family, on its third anniversary

Soviet musicians had no freedom but great prestige. Now the danger is corruption and greed

Choirs have sprung up everywhere as we begin to understand the healing power of the voice

‘Michael Jackson was a study in shame. He was ashamed of being black, ashamed of being gay’

Long overshadowed by his pupil Mozart, the real father of Viennese classicism should be heard again

‘Have you, like me, secretly felt in certain locales that you have been parachuted behind enemy lines?’

Benjamin Britten's festival proves that in music small is beautiful

When thinking about my voice, I'm more comfortable with metaphor than physiology