The Russian starts at 2:00. He’s pretty good. Enjoy.

In his dual role as Putin poster-man and the most influential musician in Russia, Valery Gergiev is said to be scheduling a Tannhäuser production at

Our social affairs editor reports that Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra music director, married Erin Keefe, his concertmaster, on Easter Sunday. They got engaged in January. All

George Burt, a Ligeti disciple who founded the Syzygy new music ensemble while teaching at Rice University as well as California’s Notes from an Underground

The claim is made in a new campaign by Help Musicians UK, formerly the Musicians Benevolent Fund. It comes with a case-history video. The naked

How did a poor boy from Odessa lay hands on a Stradivarius in the grim Soviet 1930s? And another in the 1940s? The story is

It’s not all about knitting…   The English composer John McCabe, who died in February aged 75, was a formidable pianist who won fame in

Hilde Zadek, probably the last surviving member of Vienna’s golden cast of the 1940s, is back this week at 97, presiding over the 9th Hilde Zadek

And dead at 44.

Slipped Disc editorial:   Opinion has split down the middle on the Toronto Symphony’s sacking of star pianist Valentina Lisitsa, whose social-media hostility to the

Stats are out for the festival, Peter Alward’s last as manager, and the indicators are all pointing upwards. Ticket sales hit 94.2 percent, up from