In praise of Florian Boesch

Anyone interested in Lieder will not be surprised at this post. But anyone who has not yet bought Hyperion Records' new disc, Der Wander...

An Obvious Schemer

Here's Joseph Marx in 1963, a year before he died, in his apartment on Traungasse in Vienna. One visitor to the blog this week said of ...

Favouring the Brave

Fortune favours the brave. Although many musical radicals found it hard to make ends meet and often had to face the opprobrium of a cautious...

Hearing Better in the Morning

Do we listen to classical music at the wrong time? Most concerts are scheduled between 7pm and 8pm, after we've rushed from the office, ...