This month marks the 50th anniversary of Sir John Barbirolli’s death, one of several British conductors who dominated the UK’s post-war record industry. Barbirolli made most of his recordings for EMI ...

John Barbirolli, the Philharmonic-Symphony’s newest maestro, didn’t start the season by overturning Carnegie Hall, but he seems to be the sort of young conductor the orchestra needs. There’s no sense ...

Luck, fate, or whatever you care to call it, played a more than usually strong part in the career of the distinguished oboist Evelyn Rothwell, who has died aged 97. Though reluctant to use the name of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. New box sets continue the debate over John Barbirolli, the New York Philharmonic’s music director from 1937 to ’42. John Barbirolli remains a beloved figure in England, but is ...

Evelyn Barbirolli with her husband the great conductor Sir John Barbirolli: they were a striking and contrasted pair Lady Barbirolli, who died on January 25 aged 97, was an oboist of the highest ...

The performance of Elgar's oratorio that John Barbirolli conducted in Rome in November 1957 was briefly available on LP, and acquired a place in history as the only surviving record of the great Jon ...

To celebrate Gramophone's 90th anniversary this month we are reprinting a series of classic interviews from the Gramophone archive. We continue with Sir John Barbirolli, who spoke to Alan Blyth for ...

Marking 50 years since the conductor’s death, Andrew Farach-Colton chooses 10 momentous recordings Sir John Barbirolli was just 11 when he took his cello into a London studio to cut his first ...

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The Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn’t hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester’s famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise ...