Musicians and orchestral organisations worldwide remember Seiji Ozawa as a pioneering talent and "a joyful, kind, caring human being".

From Isolde to Cleopatra, Decca unearths treasures the artist thought should languish in the vaults. 

Kirsten Flagstad revisited, Marriner’s pre-HIP Bach and DG’s Ozawa box.

Nathan Aspinall has been selected as one of 24 participants to battle it out at the elite competition in Denmark.

As a recording artist (primarily for Philips) Ozawa was never extravagantly lauded, but neither was his work as divisive as some.