Buxton Festival

We Remainers aren’t going away

20 July 2019 9:00 am

My voice is often recognised by people who don’t know me. My face, which is unmemorable, less so. But once…

A sonic masterclass: the Silesian String Quartet at Wigmore Hall reviewed

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Of all the daft notions about the classical music business, the daftest is that it’s a business at all. Seriously:…

Eastern promise

18 July 2015 9:00 am

These are nervous times at the opera. When should we expect the gratuitous rape scene? Will the director relocate the…

Mixed blessings

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Dvorak’s The Jacobin and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, the two operas that opened this year’s Buxton Festival, are both relative…