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Barenboim quits Berlin Phil’s Europakonzert
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Sir Andrew Davis and the snobs
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At last, Beethoven’s 5th played on viola solo
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Carla Bruni takes us round the carousel of French chanson
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Classical blog rises from the dead
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How chic! David Bowie show to open new Paris Philharmonie
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Former Chetham’s teacher is charged with sexual offence
The conductor Nicholas Smith, a former head of…
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Country opera hires London orchestra
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New research: Opera in cinemas does not draw audiences to live performance
A fairly small sample polled by English Touring Opera…
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Just in: Mandela opera is pulled after three shows
Madiba, an opera on the life of Nelson…
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Man, man, man…. what was Peter Pears thinking?
The BBC has just released archive film of…
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New York’s music hotel has gone to the dreckorators
The Chelsea Hotel – where the composer Virgil…
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Some things singers should never do to a pianist
Jenna Douglas, a Canadian pianist and singing coach,…
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Munich Phil ‘nearly missed Carnegie Hall’ over ivory issues
A spokesman for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra has…
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Leipzig gives Wagner Prize to Polish director
Ewa Michnik, general manager and music director of…
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Two violins, stranded by airline on the tarmac
Time For Three violinists Zach De Pue and…
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Believe it: a composer makes a TV ad
It’s Esa-Pekka Salonen and he’s selling i-Pads. But…
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Lang Lang smells
The pianist tweets: Very excited to announce the…
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An orchestra expects its audience to grow younger
Cleveland has plans for rejuvenating the audience. In…
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UK fail: Students are set music technology exam… in mono
A confession from the Edexcel examination board: What…
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How Stockhausen composed his own oblivion
Tim Page, in a typically incisive essay for…
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Paris takes a hint from the BBC Proms
The Orchestre de Paris, preparing to enter its…
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Murdered at the Museum
This is the couple who were gunned down…
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