What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in ...

Tchaikovsky, the rococo twiddles of whose complete Nutcracker this team seems to have enjoyed so much on a recent recording, would probably take the palm, though Mahler, of all composers, will do, too ...

There was no doubt about it: we were in the presence of one of the world's great orchestras, and the sound it now makes in Beethoven is nothing like the larded beauty of the Karajan era. Rattle, with ...