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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There is a line of beauty that runs through French vocal music, from Debussy to Messiaen to Boulez, which exists to the exclusion of all else. When you […]

The death has been made known of Alan Grieve, CBE, founder of the Jerwood Foundation which in 34 years gave away an eight-figure sum to visual and performing arts in the UK. He never bothered […]

From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]

A new Youtube channel, Opus Obscura, has broiught out recording of Elgar’s cello concerto by the late principal cello of the Vienna Philharmonic, Franz Bartolomey. It is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and takes extremely […]

The Minnesota Orchestra has dedicated this weekend’s concerts to the memory of Arek Tesarczyk, a member of its cello section, who died after a long illness. Polish born, Tesarczyk was a pedigee performer who gave […]

Professor Tim Jackson has won his defamation case against the University of North Texas, which has agreed to reinstate him as editor of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies and pay him almost three-quarters of a […]

Obituary received: Dinah Bryant passed away on June 4th in Brussels, where she shared more than 40 years of life and music with her devoted husband, pianist Daniel Blumenthal. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September […]

 Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]

Principal trumpet Esteban Batallán has been telling Dennis Polkow why he left the Chicago Symphony for Philadelphia last year… and came back six months later. Batallán: ‘Somehow, I wanted to make sure I had a […]

You may read below a statement by the International Double Reed Society’s president Jacqueline Wilson, claiming that its directors and personnel have received death threats over a policy to restrict certain IDRS grants to ‘under-represented’ […]