We have been informed of the death of  Nicolae Licaret, long-serving music director of the Georges Enesco Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest and a vital figure in

We hear that the German violinist Elia Kaden was denied boarding on his Norwegian flight DY1104 from Oslo to Berlin two days before Christmas. He

One of the world’s longest musical partnerships is about to end. Zubin Mehta first conducted the Israel Philharmonic in 1961. He was named music director

Now, at last, with English subtitles. The unique 1948 radio interview begins at 1:50. The voice, steeped in liquor and cigars, is unforgettable, hypnotic.

A sombre German selection of major cultural and intellectual losses of 2016. Click here to read.

Teachers at the celebrated Gnessin School have lost a husband and a son in the Tupolev crash that wiped out the Alexandrov Ensemble, formerly the

There are six current vacancies at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Fancy your chances? Tom Greenleaves, the orchestra’s solo timpanist, talks us though the hoops and falls