Bayreuth’s Parsifal conductor Hartmut Haenchen has walked out on Van Walsum-owned Maestro Arts. He has announced that he has joined the Berlin-based Boris Orlob agency.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, possibly Germany’s most respected newspaper, has mounted a full-page rebuttal of recent bullying charges against Daniel Barenboim in its widely-read Saturday

Joseph Flummerfelt, long-serving director of Westminster College Choir, died on Friday. Joe was 82. In 2004 he was named Conductor of the Year by Musical America.

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Busoni is a great baffler. One of the most interesting musical minds of his time — the only

The British conductor Manoj Kamps has worked with the Halle Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. Last year, he premiered Coded Messages: Scenes in the Life