As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country's cultural elite are now also taking ...

From left to right: Vladimir Putin, singer Placido Domingo, conductor Valery Gergiev, Presidential Administration Chief Sergey Ivanov, and singer Anna Netrebko attend the opening of the new Mariinsky ...

Tchaikovsky only wrote three complete string quartets. Astonishingly the first was written in just a few weeks, when he realised he needed more material for a concert of his chamber music at the ...