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Richard Fairman is the FT’s classical music critic, writing reviews of concerts and operas, features and interviews. He has also written for the Daily Telegraph and the Times, is a board member ...
“What tremendous rejoicing and applause! A delirium unparalleled in the annals of furore”, wrote the German poet Heinrich ...
Oliver Mears’s production offers a grisly interpretation of the doomed love story between Jupiter and a mere mortal ...
Classical music by Richard Fairman At Large: Behind the Camera with Brian Large by Brian Large and Jane Scovell (Verlag für moderne Kunst) Few memoirs from a life in music are as entertaining as ...
Kožená is partnered by a distinguished colleague, Mitsuko Uchida. In her solo recitals, the pianist has proved herself a highly sensitive interpreter of French music, and so she is here, precise, ...
The main event is Adès’s Aquifer, written for Simon Rattle and his Munich orchestra last year. The music is a depiction of water rising through layers of rock, making this one of Adès’s virtuoso ...
The Labour Party is starting its second year in control of the government with difficult choices over whether to curb spending or raise taxes.
Ben Goldscheider performs Brian Elias’s Horn Concerto Richard Fairman Published Jun 23 2025 ...
Richard Nieva is a San Francisco-based senior writer who covers technology. He joined Forbes in 2022 and covers public companies and artificial intelligence. Previously, he wrote for BuzzFeed News ...
The committee’s report, which mentioned Singapore 21 times in its 139 pages, said the government and the regulators should do more to measure the economic impact of financial regulation and ...
Niccol told the Financial Times that Starbucks was considering bringing in a minority investor and had received “a lot of interest”. It would be a step in the right direction.