Michael Haydn

Bleak humour, resourcefulness and wit: Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Quarantine Soirées reviewed

28 March 2020 9:00 am

There’s a certain merit in bluntness. ‘Quarantine Soirées’ was what the Budapest Festival Orchestra called its response to the crisis,…

I know how to cure my music addiction

18 January 2014 9:00 am

About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…