Watch: Wilhelm Kempff, 75, reimagines Mozart

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 […]

The mezzo-soprano Regina Sarfaty, who has died at 90, never got picked to sing at the Met. She was picked by Santa Fe in 1957 while still a student at Juilliard and she went on […]

In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.   “You try lots of things,” […]