The violinist Peter Cropper was an inspirational player of enormous integrity who was unafraid to set aside "received practice" in order to plumb the depths of the composer's psyche in search of the meaning behind the information on the printed page. Committed to the music, he played with raw passion,…

The Lindsay String Quartet leader introduced me to Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Shostakovich: precious indeed for a girl growing up in the Potteries

June 11--In the tasteful, slightly clenched new version of "Testament of Youth," you sense the filmmakers struggling with how much, or how little, to acknowledge the pacifist ideals that guided author Vera Brittain's 1933 memoir of World War I as she pulled the book from her own experience.

The goalkeeper has yet to be beaten by an opposition player during England’s Euro 2016 qualifying campaign and says, ‘I don’t want to let any goals in’

• Sylvain Distin and Jonás Gutiérrez also officially let go by current employers• Some listed players, such as Wes Brown, likely to be offered a fresh contract

No matter how often the winger fails to deliver what his talent has long promised, a nation still clings to the prospect he can produce something special