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25 June, 2024

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Turning poignant poetry into sumptuous song

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Time for Three Platoon PLAT29101 65:05 mins Is it a song cycle? An opera? Musical theatre? Kevin Puts’s new work Emily – No Prisoner Be, based on texts by Emily Dickinson, is a

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Pretenders to the throne of god

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers

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The great discordance

Had Robin Holloway published Music’s Odyssey—described by its author as “an invitation to the glorious long voyage of Western classical music”—30 years ago, he might well have got away with it. By day