The Berlin Senate has decided that leading personalities in the cultural field will have their earnings made public, the Berliner Zeitung reports today. That should

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: …. Only Patricia Kopatchinskaya would have made these connections, and no other violinist could bring them to life with

Marcia Hansen Kraus’s recent book George Szell’s Reign, published by the University of Illinois Press, covers the great conductor’s years in Cleveland with the orchestra

The French conductor Sylvain Cambreling is to be the next chief of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, it was announced this morning. He succeeds Sir Jeffrey Tate,

Nelson Cooke, who has died at a great age, was Australia’s first cellist of international standing. He played in various London orchestras in the 1950s

I once saw Susanna Mälkki conduct a concert made up entirely of world premieres by unknown composers. It was in Stockholm, and very bracing, too.

Inon Barnatan has been named music director of La Jolla’s SummerFest. He succeeds Cho-Liang Lin, who has been in charge for 18 summers.  

A&R went rather quiet at Harmonia Mundi front after the label was bought out by Pias. But there are signs of life again. This week,

Distressing as it was to get dismissed by the Metropolitan Opera ‘in a moral panic‘, John Copley’s distinguished career is serenely unaffected by Peter Gelb’s

We have been informed that Yamaha terminated its artist relationship with Bradley Garner, as of yesterday. Garner, 61, has been allowed to resign from the University