From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal or soloist appreciation. Premiered on the composer’s sixtieth birthday, at a concert where […]
What you need to know: The former Vienna Opera singer Johannes Pietsch won the Eurovision Song Contest last night with a quiet ballad, Wasted Love. Using the stage name ‘JJ’, he produced a clear falsetto […]
The CBSO chief conductor Kazuki Yamada has been awarded the 56th Suntory Music Award ‘for notable contributions to the development of Western-style music in Japan’. The prize is worth about £35,000. The post Birmingham maestor […]