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Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director, has died aged 96

Productions included a Tosca which lasted 40 years at Covent Garden

Composer Sven-David Sandström has died

Daniel Barenboim named as first honorary conductor of Berlin Philharmonic

Vote for Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2019

Thierry Fischer named São Paulo Symphony Music Director

New reviews

Features

Hector Berlioz: music's great revolutionary

Tim Ashley is joined by four great advocates of the composer to celebrate the self-taught, revolutionary musician whose eccentric genius is only now being fully recognised

Video of the day: Hugo Ticciati plays Bach's 'Ciaccona' from Partita in D minor for Solo Violin

A beautifully produced time-lapse film of an acorn growing over 8 months accompanies Ticciati's performance

Video: preview of David Lang's 'prisoner of the state'

Eric Owens sings 'Gold' from Lang's upcoming operatic retelling of Beethoven's Fidelio

The Sixteen at 40: ‘the basic principle of just loving what we were doing has never left us; it’s been the whole nature of the group’

Since 1979, founder-conductor Harry Christophers has never lost sight of The Sixteen’s mission to bring choral music to the wider public with uninhibited passion, he tells Lindsay Kemp

Blogs & The Listening Room

The Listening Room

14th Jun 2019

The Listening Room: Episode 75 (14.05.19)

Jessye Norman sings Wagner, Karl Leister plays Spohr, Sigvards Klava conducts Tchaikovsky choral music and Hugo Ticciati revisits Dido's Lament

Nimrod Borenstein

13th Jun 2019

With a little preparation, composing for the harp can be profoundly rewarding

Composer Nimrod Borenstein offers an introduction to writing for this most beguiling of instruments

The Listening Room

7th Jun 2019

The Listening Room: Episode 74 (7.6.19)

Riccardo Chailly conducts Nino Rota, Susanna Mälkki conducts Bartók and Sakari Oramo conducts Arensky plus Bach on the guitar, Howells’s Cello Concerto and a striking Piano Sonata by Stewart Goodyear