Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben is a song cycle that depicts, in eight poems, a woman’s love and life. Its texts, poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, sum up a woman’s life roughly...

I first met Detlev Glanert in 2010, when I gave the first performance of his orchestration of Schubert’s Einsamkeit (D620). It had been commissioned for me and the Halle Orchestra...

The strangeness of boarding a plane struck me four weeks ago. Of course, it’s actually perfectly normal (once you get beyond the obvious weirdness of being in a big metal...