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Piano Concerto No. 3 Yunchan Lim (piano); Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop Decca STNS30217 (digital) 41:40 mins At just north of 40 minutes, Decca’s release of Yunchan Lim’s prize-winning pe

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‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu

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As Alison Balsom prepares to return to the Proms, Marie-Claire Chappet sits down with the classical trumpeter to discuss success, self-improvement and the unifying power of music