The career of the composer and conductor Lalo Schifrin, who has died aged 93, was incomparably rich and varied, spanning musical genres from jazz and classical to Latin American, funk, rock and avant garde. He conducted (among others) the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and composed music ranging from piano concertos and symphonies to an album of songs in the Aztec language for the tenor Plácido Domingo.
When the Three Tenors staged their historic inaugural concert on the eve of the football World Cup final in Rome in 1990, it was Schifrin who created the musical arrangements, the first of his four collaborations with them. The recording of the event was declared to be the bestselling classical album of all time.
