Nune Oksentyan, who died on March 23, was professor of organ and harpsichord in St Peterbsurg.

She accompanied Dmitri Shostakovich to the historic 1950 Bach bicentennial in Leipzig.

The Italiann luthier Luigi Lanaro died last week at a formidable age.

Winner of the Cremona international exhibition in 1949, he worked in Buenos Aires and Mexico City before opening his own studio in Padua, together with his son, Roberto.

He has some challenging answers in this conversation with Harvey Sachs on the Toscanini anniversary.

Anthony Roth Costanzo talks to Living the Classical Life about his cancer diagnosis at the age of 26, about spending time naked on stage and being gay in the opera profession.

An exuberantly self-revealing interview.

Watch.

Photo: Richard Hubert Smith/English National Opera