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We remember his immense contribution to musical life Bernard Haitink, one of the preeminent conductors of our time, has died aged 92. The Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for 27 years, a former Music Director of The Royal Opera, London and of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, a...

Director of Music Andrew Nethsingha introduces a major step for equality of gender in choral singing In a major move for equality of gender in choral singing, St John’s College, Cambridge has announced that both girl choristers and female undergraduates will join the choir from 2022. St John’s...

The Brazilian pianist, whose Decca recording of the two Brahms piano concertos (with the Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly) was voted Gramophone’s Recording of the Year in 2007, has died at the age of 77. A pupil of Lucia Branco (a ‘grand-pupil’, via Arthur de Greef, of Franz Liszt), and...

Anna Netrebko: The star soprano on her striking new album; Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason: The siblings on their first duo recording; rediscovering Florence Price; Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony: We reveal the finest recordings In the November issue of Gramophone we speak to Russian soprano Anna...

Warner Classics has signed an exclusive contract with the Samoan tenor Pene Pati. His label debut, scheduled for Spring next year, will be a recital of arias from Romantic operas by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Massenet and Benjamin Godard, recorded with the Orchestre national...

The composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who reinvented musical theatre for modern times, has died at the age of 91. Always drawn to unusual and varied subjects – a psychopathic barber, a 19th-century French painter, a bachelor scared of commitment, a reunion of retired chorus girls, to name just...