Classical

• Never to be a drab four

  The Edinburgh Quartet is changing.

• A teacher who’s learned some life lessons

  James Dillon describes his childhood as a contradiction.

• The tricky matter of striking just the right note

  It has been more than half a century since High Fidelity magazine ran its most infamous, most inflammatorily...

• The electric conductor

  Rumour has it Robin Ticciati doesn't like interviews.

• EIF to recognise at last the musical tapestry of the shadowless woman

  With three performances of Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Richard Strauss's sprawling symbolic fairy tale about a woman...

• The art of composing

  I am late.

• Quiet hero Andy deserves the applause

  It's exactly six months since I was contacted out of the blue by Andy Saunders, a freelance French horn player whom...

• Heading off in a new direction

  WE have much to learn about Peter Oundjian, music director-designate of the RSNO, who will take up his new post at...