press statement: New York Public Radio has terminated the employment of Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz following two separate investigations overseen by outside counsel. These

Ever since James Levine was first accused of molesting young males, no-one in the opera world has been shocked or surprised by the identities disclosed.

Among the four accusers is the soprano Sylvia McNair, who tells the Associated Press: As soon as it was just the two of us in

Nuno Coelho Silva was declared winner last night of the men-only Cadaques conducting competition. The jury was chaired by past winner Gianandrea Noseda. The runner-up was Felix

The Portuguese-born pianist Maria Joao Pires announced her retirement two months ago. It was intended to take effect next summer. But Pires has cancelled her

Nicholas Milton, who is stepping down as Generalmusikdirektor of the Saarländisches Staatsorchester ‘for personal reasons’, will take over next year as chief conductor in Gottingen.

From a reader: I wonder whether other readers have been in touch with news of shocking events at the Barbican tonight. The hall was full

There was a time when the music business surged to Fort Worth to sign up the Cliburn finalists. No longer. The competition has yielded dull

Just in from Bob Shingleton’s On An Overgrown Path: Whether we like it or not, Norman Lebrecht’s Slipped Disc blog is an accurate measure of the pulse of

In a programme-length interview on Shanghai’s main television channel, I was asked about the acrid rivalry that persists between China’s two best-known classical musicians. I