The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning

The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise

Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway

Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera

It is a strange world we live in when a musician’s personal politics leads to as much uproar as Winston Marshall’s case has

Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed

Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on

Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound

Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence

The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra