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Sudden death of principal trumpet, 31
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Just in: Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Concertgebouw attack
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Just in: Barbara Hannigan becomes chief conductor
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Rattle, Mutter, Argerich and Bychkov shout out against cultural bullying
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Two new jobs
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Whatever happened to Gavin Bryars?
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Mahler – what conductors tell me
By some intuitive affinity or massive failure of imagination,…
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Last composer standing – the real rankings
The first shock on seeing the list of…
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Last Composer Standing – the results
With reports in from all the major publishers,…
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Last composer standing – it's the rising clarinet
The esteemed firm of Schott (Mainz and London)…
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Last composer standing – guess who's top now
Just when you thought the most performed works…
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Last composer standing – more shocks and spills
Two more publishers, Faber Music and Universal Edition,…
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So who took an axe to your piano?
A friend who is writing a play about…
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Promises, promises… and a prospect of Bliss
Three publishers in London and New York are…
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Barenboim jumps down and bows out
In the final act of his London Beethoven-Schoenberg…
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Last composer standing – who is really the most performed?
Three months ago I kicked off a public…
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New twist on classical record stats
This just in from Eric Dingman, president of…
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What Lang Lang did next
No sooner had I broken the Chinese pianist’s label switch…
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What to do when a conductor throws up
A hilarious blog by Gareth Davies, principal flute…
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Classical numbers – where it hurts most
The last time Hilary Hahn topped the classical…
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Barenboim – the waggon rolls
At ten o’clock this morning (Friday, Jan 29)…
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The sun shines in Australia
The imbroglio – wonderful word, reminiscent of Dutch…
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More concert disturbances
What people can and cannot do during a…
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Permission to listen? And to share what I feel?
Richard Morrison, the Times music critic, had an…
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