Ericf Silberger, a Tchaikovsky competition prizewinner and protégé of Lorin Maazel, always wanted to play his violin inside a volcano. Why? Because no-one had ever done it before and come out to tell the tale.

So he flew to Iceland and got national television to track him into the maw of a monster. ‘It’s a really natural acoustic,’ he says. Watch.

David Nadien, who led the orchestra under Leonard Bernstein 1966-70 and can be heard on many recordings, has passed away at the age of 88. Brooklyn born, the son of a bantamweight boxer, Nadien appeared as a soloist with the NY Phil in 1940, aged 14. He was respected by Menuhin and Oistrakh, who came to him for tips on technique, and detested by Isaac Stern, who resented his relationship with Bernstein.

May they all rest in peace.