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Perched on the edge of Lake Lugano, with the San Salvatore peak just in the background, Lugano’s LAC is preposterously scenic. Now in its eighth season, the LAC concert hall has quickly established itself as a major centre for chamber and orchestral performance, attracting an array of distinguished soloists and guest ensembles to Ticino.

Howard Shore’s otherworldly music for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ has been voted the nation’s favourite film score in the Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2023.

Three violinists and a cellist from Theresia Orchestra will join period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico on a European tour in September 2023

Renata Scotto speaks to Alan Blyth for Gramophone's August 1978 issue

Founded in 1935, the non-profit will wind down operations this fall.

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Bruno Delepelaire were among the winners at Germany's most prestigious classical music awards

Prolific conductor and composer whose work spanned film, ballet, television and oratorio

Drive an hour and a half from Budapest and you will reach an inland paradise on the shores of Lake Balaton. Veszprém is this year’s European Capital of Culture, an initiative that offers an opportunity to introduce lesser-known regions to other European states.

One of the darkest chapters in human history arrives on the big screen in ‘Oppenheimer’, and a suspenseful string-infused soundtrack sucks its audience straight into the action.

Alongside the Australian Music Center, music rights management group APRA AMCOS has revealed finalists in 11 categories for its Art Music Awards

The Italian conductor Giuseppe Mengoli received First Prize of €30,000

Music students are speaking out about their experiences during their studies, many for the first time

The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced Christopher Heil as its new Chorus director.

We have been informed of the passing just before midnight of the marvellous tenor Graham Clark. Graham, who was 81, had been struggling with cancer in recent months.

Why the Orchestre de Paris deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

A Sunday Times reporter has been given the estate agent’s tour of the house in my vicinity where the Soltis once lived.

In a very limited field with an even more restricted jury, these are the results of the piano finals...

Announced by the BBC Radio 3, Royal College of Music, and the National Centre for Early Music, the UK-based quintet will hold the role from 2023-25

A founding member of Bang on a Can All-Stars, the bassist, improvisor and educator was 67

South Korean pianist Seokyoung Hong was awarded first place and a $15,000 cash prize

The Russians have announced a narrow field of participants in their high-prestige event. An overwhelming majority of contenders are Russian and Chinese.

Figures released at the close of the Met season to the Associated Press show a slight increase in ticket sales at the Metropolitan Opera – from 61 percent in the post-Covid return year to 66 percent in 2022-23.

Slovakian violist Šimon Truszka joins the quartet with immediate effect

The Konzerthaus Berlin has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Martin Lehmann conducts Bach’s “Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 (Teile I-III)” with soloists Marie Luise Werneburg, Henriette Godde, Eric Stoklossa, and Julian Orlishausen.

The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2023-24 season. The season opens with Botio’s “Mefistofele” with Simon Stone directing. Michele Mariotti conducts a cast that includes John Relyea, Maria Agresta, and Joshua Guerrero.

BBC Radio 3 has unveiled the latest list of young musicians to be welcomed onto its prestigious New Generation Artists scheme.

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) has named Marin Alsop as its new Artistic Director and Chief Conductor.

It was with great sadness that we learned the news over the weekend of the death of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.

Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur has announced its 2023-24 season.

The Awards, which for the past 20 years have recognised classical and jazz composing, will now concentrate on classical composition, with new Jazz Awards launched in 2024

Perched right on Marina Bay, Singapore’s Esplanade Theatres sparkle just as light bounces off the water. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s approach to concert programming would seem to mirror this lustrousness – not just in choice of repertoire, but in their drawing together some of the most charismatic guest artists from around the world.

The Berlin Phil chief conductor will make his Scala debut next season in Harry Kupfer’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, it was announced today in Milan.

Gustavo Dudamel is stepping down as Music Director of the Paris Opera at the end of the current 2022/23 season, less than two years after starting the role, for personal reasons.

Music Director Teddy Abrams tells Classic FM about his musical partnership with the world’s great cellist, which was 10 million years in the making.

Three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn has announced her latest album with Deutsche Grammophon

Due to Barenboim's health condition, he has had to step back from the "Beethoven for All" concert on May 12

The Georgian violinist will step into the role for the 2023/24 season

The adventure of a little girl who, with her dreams and strong faith, broke through The Iron Wall of the Soviet Union and became a world-renowned violinist

23-year-old VC Young Artist Dmytro Udovychenko, from Ukraine, has been awarded First Prize at this year's violin edition

“You can’t rely on virtuosity in Beethoven’s concerto; you have to reveal yourself,” says María Dueñas. And that can only be done through sound.”

French pianist Colette Maze still practices between four and five hours a day, despite the fact that she has lived through two world wars and countless other historic events.

Cellist Alban Gerhardt joins conductor Simone Young in Madrid for what promises to be a gripping series of concerts with Orquesta Nacional de España.

Noa Wildschut makes her debut with Tonhalle Orchester Zürich on 26 and 27 April. Noa will performe Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5, a piece that is close to her heart.

Quatuor Ébène’s recent releases show an agile zig-zag across eras: Beethoven in 2019, Dutilleux and Schoenberg in 2021, and now back to Mozart with the K. 515 and K. 516 Quintets.

A Colburn alumna, Meyers performs solo with leading orchestras worldwide and has contributed over 40 releases as a recording artist

Hailed as “peerless today as a Rachmaninov interpreter” (The Guardian), pianist Daniil Trifonov has in recent years made milestone recordings of all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Released on ARS Produktion, the disc explores the work of Jewish composers from the first decades of the twentieth century and features several world premiere arrangements

Released on Deutsche Grammophon, Wang performs with the Louisville Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams

Unsung presents cellist Sophie Kauer’s performances of works by Nadia Boulanger, Anatoly Lyadov, Felix Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann

The Chapel is the tenth film by Belgian director Dominique Deruddere. It tells the fictional story of 23-year-old virtuoso pianist Jennifer Rogiers, who takes part in the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Together with the eleven other finalists, she is traditionally secluded in the Music Chapel, without any contact with the outside world, in order to prepare her final performance.

Nikolai Lugansky has recorded Rachmaninov's Études-Tableaux before, back in the January 1995 issue Bryce Morrison was impressed by the then 22-year-old pianist's 'glorious eloquence'.

Nova Orchester Wien invites you to a concert evening in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the great cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan.