Why are the Irish such good storytellers? The historical perspective is that the oral tradition goes way, way back, allied to the gift of the gab...

35 years ago, persona-now-non-grata John Eliot Gardiner reveealed how performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito...

It was a hefty evening, as it needn't necessarily have been throughout, since Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony can conceal more darkness between the...