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Daily Comfort Zone
It’s a first for Itzhak Perlman
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Daily Comfort Zone
Triple Bach: Does it get any better?
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Pianist sues composer over sexual allegations
The legal battle continues between pianist Nomi Abadi…
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A music professor dies after allegation of sexual misconduct
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Ruth Leon recommends…. Barbara Cook – Till There Was You – The Music Man
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Orchestras
A Mahler cycle in … Norwich
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Daily Comfort Zone
Are these Beethoven’s cadenzas?
Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count…
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ballet
‘Soul of Merce Cunningham company’ dies at 95
Obituary by Alastair Macaulay: The enchanting, generous, warm,…
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RIP
Concertmaster, 91
The Zagreb Soloists have announced the death of…
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Opera
Where’s Muti? Teaching Verdi in Suzhou
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Orchestras
Dear Alma, Should I break up my string quartet?
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My…
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RIP
Lament for leading Leipzig musician
We have been notified of the death, aged…
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Orchestras
Munich orchestra: We’re underpaid
Musicians in the Munich Symphony Orchestra, ranking fourth…
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Orchestras
Just in: Berlin cancels festival due to funding cuts
Berlin’s Konzarthaus has called off its Projections festival…
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Opera
Florence dishonours Puccini
A concert at the Teatro Maggio Musicale to…
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News
La Scala orchestra strikes on Puccini 100th
The musicians picked their moment to blank the…
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Opera
Meet your Destiny in Barcelona
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Orchestras
Furtwängler explains himself in French and in German
Two very rare videos from our archives. Watch…
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Orchestras
Furtwängler: An important reassessment
The Wilhelm Furtwängler Society has shared with us…
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Album Of The Week
It’s been a Weill…
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The…
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Orchestras
A Simon Rattle programme
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Opera
Label news: Sonya quits Sony
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