Music

Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)

A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer

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Pomp and circumstance

A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square

On Music
The last weird decade

We have lost the oddness of the 1990s

Artillery Row
Doing the Strand

The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club

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Musical scores

Great passages of play evoke great music

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Before and after gould

Bach’s Goldberg Variations have a rich history that far transcend its modern association with Glenn Gould

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The sound of love

Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer

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A square prehistory of popular music

Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos

Books
Sounds and sweet airs

Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it

Editorial
Bring on the big beasts

Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence

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