Classical Music
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
This century’s Great Composers
Hidden masterminds may yet revive the species
Wanted: classical music influencers
Expert, well-dressed, wisecracking reviewers once delivered first-night juice
Let’s hear it for early music
Competence unencumbered by ideological fog or bureaucratic sprawl
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
Domesticating Wagner
A new production of Die Walküre is at odds with its music
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
Can Russia hit the high notes again?
Russian music faces an uncertain future
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