Peter Cropper, first violin of The Lindsays, has died

• Monday, June 1, 2015

Born November 19, 1945; died May 30, 2015

Exclusive video: Gidon Kremer plays Philip Glass's Violin Concerto No 2

• Thursday, May 28, 2015

Beautiful new film of the second movement of Glass's 'American Four Seasons'

Daniel Barenboim launches new piano at London’s Royal Festival Hall

• Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Barenboim-Maene Concert Grand was developed and built by Chris Maene, with support from Steinway & Sons

David Pickard named as Director of the BBC Proms

• Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Pickard is currently General Director at Glyndebourne and will assume his new role later this year

English National Ballet to move to new home in East London

• Friday, May 22, 2015

The company’s new headquarters will offer state-of-the-art training facilities and teaching and rehearsal studios alongside a unique production space

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