She’s the 2018 winner of the Glenn Gould Prize.

It’s worth C$100,000.

‘We were united in our admiration for the 12th Glenn Gould Prize Laureate, the incomparable Jessye Norman,’ said jury chair Viggo Mortensen.

The American pianist Irwin Gage died on Thursday in Zurich, where he had lived for many years.

Born in Cleveland, he was the regular partner of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jessye Norman, Cheryl Studer and many more singers and violinists.

He is widely recorded.

The French conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire has passed away.

An entrepreneurial oboist, he formed a baroque ensemble in the 1960s and recorded extensively. But he was never a narrow specialist and always looked for opportunities to engage with contemporary composers.

Steven Honigberg has produced a video tribute to John Martin, sharp-tongued principal cello of the National Symphony Orchestra, where the greatest cellist on earth, Mstislav Rostrpovich, was music director.

‘Slava just loved him and his originality,’ remembers Steven. ‘John’s sense of humor made Slava crack up like you wouldn’t believe. This film is based on an interview I did with John in 1987. I was 25, John was 64. After years of accumulating photos and as much press as I could find, I was able to piece something meaningful together.’

John died in November 2005, aged 82.

According to a new article, the conductor started wearing shoe inserts in Breisgau around 1940 in order to come up to the height of his statuesque second wife, Anita Gütermann.

Photo: Archive Klaus Riehle 

More episodes from Karajan’s half-hidden wartime life here.