classical music

Those of us old enough to hear Nathan Milstein in our youth will never forget the sound, the charm, the sheer joie de vivre of a violinist who made the greatest of his rivals seem […]

The composer and educator Jack Behrens passed away earlier this month in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His 1970 orchestral work The Sound of Milo was warmly received. Behrens was chair of music theory and composition at the […]

The National Conservatory of Music in Quito has announced the death of (Luis) Gerardo Guevara (Viteri). A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Guevara published more than 100 scores and wrote the defining history of […]

Ars Choralis Coeln has announced the death of its founder, the versatile mezzo-soprano Maria Jonas. A specialist in early, contemporary and improvised music, Maria founded and directed numerous ensembles, often combining early and new music […]

The Observer music critic Fiona Maddocks rates Death in Venice as her signature opera experience of the year. Read her full rankings here. There is stgill time to add your top 3 to the Slippedisc […]

Over the hoplidays this week, BBC Radio 3 is running three new Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in thee music world. Two are notoriously elusive. This is, I am told, the first programme-length interview Itzhak […]

This is the forbidding Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the LA Phil in the 1980s. When he wasn’t looking, someone put the sign up and oboist David Weiss snapped this shot. Leinsdorf was not renowned for having […]