Nicola Benedetti
The decline of Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival was established to champion the civilising power of European high culture in a spirit of postwar healing.…
Without borders
Community music-making is the unifying jewel in the British crown, says James MacMillan
Going solo
Our college choirmaster had a trick that he liked to deploy when he sensed that we were phoning it in.…
Did Radio 2 really need to give us four days of the Beatles to celebrate Abbey Road?
This Changeling Self, Radio 4’s lead drama this week, clearly ought to have gone out in August. It’s set —…
Northern soul
Matthew Stadlen talks to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what drew her to Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy
