British Library secures £9.5m lottery funding to 'save the nation's sounds'

• Thursday, May 21, 2015

The funding will allow the British Library to digitise and publish online up to 500,000 recordings, including unique musical performances

BBC Music to extend their Ten Pieces scheme to secondary schools

• Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The 10 new works include pieces by Bach, Shostakovich, Verdi and Anna Clyne

Pianist James Rhodes wins right to publish autobiography

• Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The ban is lifted over the concert pianist’s book detailing his sexual abuse as a child

Lionel Tertis honoured with English Heritage blue plaque

• Friday, May 15, 2015

The plaque graces the front of the viola player's former flat in Wimbledon

The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition to be streamed live online

• Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The competition runs from June 15 to July 3

Gramophone's June issue – Wagner's Tristan und Isolde – out now!

• Wednesday, May 13, 2015

No news from the Berliner Philharmoniker

• Monday, May 11, 2015

Even after a day of deliberation the orchestra fails to select a new Chief Conductor

Alexander Armstrong to record debut classical album as a baritone

• Friday, May 8, 2015

The comedian and presenter of the BBC TV quiz 'Pointless' is a former choral scholar

Free opera online – The Opera Platform is launched

• Friday, May 8, 2015

15 European opera companies will broadcast productions for free via the new platform

Most important Bach portrait returns home to Leipzig

• Thursday, April 30, 2015

The 1748 painting by Haussmann, valued at $2.5m, bequeathed to the Leipzig Bach Archive

Daniel Hope to replace Sir Roger Norrington in Zurich

• Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Hope is named Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra

The 2015 BBC Proms season is announced

• Thursday, April 23, 2015

Marin Alsop to conduct the Last Night with soloists Jonas Kaufmann, Danielle de Niese and Benjamin Grosvenor

Gramophone's May issue – recording new music – out now!

• Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The May issue explores the way that recording has transformed the means by which new music reaches new listeners and how the latest technology is offering composers more opportunities than ever...

Brian Couzens, founder of Chandos, has died

• Friday, April 17, 2015

An inspired champion of both major artists and industry developments

New Podcast: Carolyn Sampson

• Friday, April 17, 2015

Carolyn Sampson talks about her new album 'Fleurs' with James Jolly