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Choral singers and their music directors around the UK will be raising brimful glasses on 24 September in celebration of Sir John Rutter’s 80th birthday. His music is, after all, buried deep in the mu

Norman Lebrecht on Music HE WORKED SO ...

Piano Trios; Piano Quintet, Op. 57* *Julia Fischer (violin),*Nils Mönkemeyer (viola); Oliver Schnyder Trio Prospero PROSP0035 76:52 mins Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet explores a bewildering variety of

The BBC Singers have announced that Owain Park is to be their next chief conductor. Park, 32, who will be taking over from Sofi Jeannin in autumn 2026, is already very familiar with the renowned ensem

A war surgeon’s struggles David Nott has spent ...

Looking out of the living room window across the shores of Lake Lucerne, surrounded by photographs of family and friends and listening to the piano reverberate from the room next door, you’d be forgiv