A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan

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The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning

The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise

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Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera

It is a strange world we live in when a musician’s personal politics leads to as much uproar as Winston Marshall’s case has

Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed

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Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound