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Quandary for a quartet
Which finale for Beethoven’s Op 130 should you pick— cheerful sonata-rondo or a fugue like no other?
Jonathan Gaisman
Music
Settling scores
Music stirs our emotions more than anything we can see. But visual notation is alluring too
Stephen Hough
Music
Time to learn new tunes
Classical music outfits must be open about their carbon footprints
Chris Gunness
Music
Who’s the next Mr Preview?
Today’s anonymous conductors could take a leaf out of André Previn’s crowd-pleasing book
Norman Lebrecht
Music
Virtuosos of the written word
Why don’t great composers write great prose? A literary and musical mystery
Daniel Johnson
Magazine
Music
The adoration of the Maestro
The Concertgebouw’s trailblazing conductor sublimated his libido in worship of Hitler and Mussolini
Norman Lebrecht
Music
Describing the indescribable
Very few of our greatest writers have managed to capture the emotional essence of music
Jonathan Gaisman
Music
The threepenny opera boom
Inspirational amateur companies are flourishing, yet damned as elitist by London’s culture czars
David Conway
Music
Women storm the podium
In classical music nothing happens overnight, but the rise of female conductors marks a massive change
Norman Lebrecht
Music
There’s nowt so fake as “folk”
The Scots, Welsh and Irish have an authentic tradition of folk songs. England demonstrably does not
Dominic Green
Music
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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