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Gramophone Hall of Fame 2013 announced

Fifty new influential and inspiring individuals added to list of those who have changed classical music.

Opera stars record John Denver

Aussie heldentenor Stuart Skelton joins Plácido Domingo, Danielle de Niese, Thomas Hampson and more.

How long is a piece of music?

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth wonders if the experience of live music should live longer than the music itself?

NY Phil to play on car parts (for free)

Free Medici TV live webcast planned for orchestra's sold-out Dresden concert on May 14.

Mariinsky II Opera House opens to the public

Opening Night Gala launches three days of celebratory performances in St Petersburg.

LSO tribute concerts for Sir Colin Davis

The London Symphony Orchestra honours its former president and principal conductor on June 16 and 18.

‘Bud’ Herseth has died

Legendary trumpeter who was at the heart of the Chicago Symphony's sound for 56 years passes away at 91.

Berlin Philharmonic announces 2013-14 season

Program also celebrates 50 years since Karajan inaugurated concerts in the Philharmonie.

Pianist Conrad Tao signs exclusively to EMI

18-year-old American will release his debut full-length album in June.

Where's the divide between "light" and "serious" music?

Mark Bebbington discusses his new recording of piano music by Reginald King, a forgotten master of light music.

Graham Johnson awarded Wigmore Hall Medal

Pianist and lieder accompanist honoured for "unstinting championing of Song".

John Adams: The shock of the new

As Nixon In China hits Melbourne and Sydney gets a world premiere, Thomas May discovers an American composer taking more risks than ever.

Warner to buy the Parlophone Label Group

EMI Classics and Virgin Classics are part of the package.

Royal Opera House announces new works up to 2020

New operas from Saariaho, Turnage, Adès, Glass and Australian composer Ben Frost.

David Robertson extends tenure as St Louis Symphony chief

Alongside his Sydney Symphony appointment, the conductor's St Louis contract runs until 2016.

Rattle to step down as Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor

Rumours of rebellion as Sir Simon announces he will not extend his contract when it expires.

Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya has died

The wife of cellist Mistlav Rostropovich was one of the 20th century's greatest sopranos.

Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa has died

The 93-year-old was one of the singers to have performed all three central female roles in Der Rosenkavalier.

Pianist, author and musicologist Charles Rosen has died

The renaissance man published major studies of classical music but was unjustly overlooked as pianist.

Composer Simeon ten Holt has died aged 89

Best known for his Canto Ostinato, the composer studied in Paris with Honegger and Milhaud.
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