An adage of parents is to remark that ‘the nights are long but years are short’, so in tribute to those magical mitternachts I propose – in the style of Masterchef – a lullaby cooked six ways. From ...

Mark Seow travels to Dresden to witness a performance of Sven Helbig's Requiem A, and to reflect on Britten's War Requiem and the sound of conflict ...

Sham secures the top prize with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2, while Vitaly Starikov takes Silver and Evren Ozel earns Bronze ...

The Venezuelan-Armenian conductor will take up the post in July 2026, following the retirement of James Conlon after 20 ...

Carter Johnson commandeered the complex and unwieldy textures with minimum effort and maximum suppleness and sophistication' ...

Aristo Sham took command of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 and ran away with it, infusing the gnarly solo part with purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry' ...

Premiere follows the broadcaster, musician and Gramophone contributor being named a King’s Foundation’s 35 under 35 member ...

Performance follows the broadcaster, musician and Gramophone contributor being included in the King’s Foundation’s 35 under ...

Free magazine features archive interviews and reviews of outstanding recordings from two decades of the London Philharmonic ...

On a rest day for the competition, Jed Distler looks back at some of the new music commissioned specifically for The Cliburn ...

Suffice it to say that Sham’s Scriabin Sonata No 10 was more structural than sexy, with the thematic and decorative ...

Indeed, when I looked over my earlier blog posts, I saw that I largely enjoyed these medalists’ solo rounds. Yet unlike in 2022 – when Yunchan Lim’s extraordinary Semi-final performance of Liszt’s ...