Meet the notable composers

Ther epochal singer and classical pianist Robert Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She gave up singing two years ago with the onset of Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She won a Grammy Record of […]

PLAY is a low-cost Icelandic airline flying between Europe and North America. Without instruments, apparently. The violinist Pétur Björnsson had this experience: I just had access to PLAY flight to Berlin with a violin on […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The […]