From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If there was an award for surprise of the year, this unpretentious release would win both the jury

The chief conductor of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz has handed in his notice, effective 2018. Karl-Heinz Steffens, 55, says ‘there are many personal reasons for my

Last night at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the violinist Daniel Hope was conducting a public interview with Menahem Pressler when, guess what – – on walks

Lionel Stoléru, a minister under the rival regimes of Giscard d’Estaing and Francois Mitterand, has died at 79. An economist by profession, he also taught

Bethan Doci, 38, a violinist with the Royal Shakespeare Company orchestra and other groups, was jailed yesterday for 32 months for extorting £357,000 by telling

On ZealNYC, first out of the traps: Have you ever seen a really, really cute puppy sitting in a tiny, tiny crate? All full of trapped youthful

You cannot love both Deller and Oberlin – at least not at the same time. That’s Joel Cohen’s conclusion in this tribute to the first