West End musical director Nigel Lilley joins Edward Seckerson for another in his series of free-wheeling conversations with musical and theatrical luminaries. Nigel discusses his work on the Olivier Award-winning revival of Follies at the National Theatre,…

A free-wheeling conversation with conductor John Wilson, taking in his leadership of the newly reformed Sinfonia of London, recordings of music by Korngold and Richard Rodney Bennett, his love of French music, opera and musical theatre.… [Read…

Edward Seckerson sits down with composer LUCY SIMON – The Secret Garden, Doctor Zhivago – to reflect on her journey from homespun duets with her sister Carly to the stages of Broadway and the West End. From…

Early in the development of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ extraordinary The Light in the Piazza it was thought that Chicago Lyric Opera might be tendering a commission for the piece. It wasn’t to be. Broadway beckoned.…

Delighted to be hosting a regular new series of podcasts for the Barbican. Hear interviews, performances and exclusive tracks from the world’s finest classical musicians and performers, Barbican resident orchestras and international associates in Barbican Classical Music podcasts.  …

In 2007 Gramophone magazine uncovered an extraordinary fraud that rocked the classical music industry. Concert pianist Joyce Hatto – a little-known artist of moderate talent – was suddenly the name on everyone’s lips when a series of…

TIME is the overriding motto for the 2016 DRESDEN FESTIVAL. Music can play with time in so many interesting ways, music can even suspend time creating frozen moments, moments of stasis where time ceases to exist –…

Proud of this one from 1997. I remember the day well: me, McCartney and his press agent congregating in the Broadcasting House lobby, heads turning. Then a swift elevator to the fifth floor studio sharing with a…

Simon Stephens’ Carmen Disruption upends the expectations of anyone entering the Almeida Theatre. It’s a kind of living poetry, taking its cue from Bizet’s ever-popular opera but taking it into ever darker territory. When does an artist’s…

The brothers Erik, Ken, and Mark Schumann founded the SCHUMANN QUARTET in 2007 and it might well have been an all-family affair had the cellist’s twin sister chosen to switch from violin to viola and join them.…