Having two gramophones in front of you, vinyl records and playing those like instruments instead of just letting them run, wow, it is an incredible feeling! My passion for gramophones as musical instruments (scratches, cutting, etc.) was born when a friend of mine showed me footage of a European competition from the DMC series. Personally, I think that if you have not gone through gramophones and vinyl records, you cannot call yourself a DJ, Fabrizio Parisi says in an interview to Telegraph Media.

For another year, Vienna Philharmonic will present its traditional Summer Night Concert to the lovers of classical music. The concert, which was scheduled for 21 May, will take place on 18 September. As usual, the concert will be held in the open, in the fabulous baroque gardens of Schoenbrunn Palace, but this time with much more limited audience.

US film Nomadland has won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival, the first such event held with live audiences since the Covid-19 outbreak, news wires reported. The film, by Chinese-born Chloé Zhao, stars Frances McDormand as a widow who lives as a nomad after the 2008 crisis.

Classical music lovers must keep their fans folded and endure the heat at the 100th edition of Salzburg Festival, which has drawn up an elaborate health safety plan instead of cancelling the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The magnificent jazz artist Gregory Porter, whose new single “Concorde” is an ode to space exploration, is set to perform on Thursday as part of a ceremony marking the launch of NASA’s next-generation rover that will search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars.

The Rolling Stones released on Wednesday previously unheard and never before released song called ‘Scarlet’. The track was recorded in October 1974 featuring Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. The previously unreleased track follows the huge success and acclaim of the Stones' "Living In A Ghost Town" and will feature on the upcoming 4 September multi-format release of Goats Head Soup 2020.

Opera stars like Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann are to give live-streamed concerts from locations across Europe and the US in the coming months, in a series announced by New York's Metropolitan Opera on Saturday.

The renowned Italian composer, Ennio Morricone, most famous for his film music, died on Sunday at the age of 91. He became a legend with the soundtracks he created for the so-called Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, and has composed about 500 scores for film and TV over more than 50 years.

The Sofia Philharmonic and the National Art Gallery are inviting music fans to a series of concerts at the atrium of the gallery's Square 500 building. The events will be held on Fridays, starting at 6.30pm, from 3 July until 7 August. This cultural space will echo with the sounds of masterpieces of chamber orchestra music performed by various groups of the Sofia Philharmonic.

The legendary British rock band Queen is to feature on a series of UK postage stamps over the summer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. They become only the third band to be honoured by Royal Mail, following the Beatles in 2007 and Pink Floyd in 2016.