John Williams conducts Seiji Ozawa’s Japan orchestra

Malin Broman, concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, has been named music director of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, starting this summer. Broman, who turns 50 this year, is also Artistic Director of the Ostrobothnian […]

The German violinist who has declared a boycott on Trump’s USA is mystified at the lack of protest among American musicians and institutions. In Zurich this week, he played the Ukrainian national anthem at his […]

We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht Interview with the great violinist is the first programme-length conversation he has ever agreed to. We talk about many things – his boyhood bout of polio, the […]