Best orchestral performance BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3; STRAUSS: HORN CONCERTO NO. 1 Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) NIELSEN: SYMPHONY

A loyal reader tells us that Chicago, Philadelphia and Minnesota have never hired a music director who was born in the

From this week’s Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ever wonder what Henryk Mikolai Górecki did before he hit the jackpot with

We are very sorry to hear that Anne Parsons, president of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, has been diagnosed with metastatic lung

It has become apparent that, of the $12 million left to Ventura College at her death by Miriam Schwab, $10

The German composer and experimental pianist Hauschka (real name: Volker Bertelmann) has switched from DG to Sony Classical and from his

From a new essay by our collabo Joseph Horowitz: … According to stereotype, the orchestra is an elitist institution. But

From the Opera di Roma: The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma announces that due to an episode of cardiac arrhythmia that

The rehab is not complete. Zubin Mehta has been called in to conduct Otello in place of Gatti at the

The highly rated Oksana Lyniv has decided not to renew her contract as principal conductor of Graz Oper and the Graz

Tom Oren, 24, from Tel Aviv emerged winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition in New