Let’s hear it for early music

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Alexandra Wilson charts opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives

Norman Lebrecht on Music

Patterns, says Clare Hammond. Learning a new piece, especially if you’re committing it to memory, and the clock is against you, is all about finding patterns. ‘If you can find patterns in a piece of m

Is there a special sorcery in Seoul? Cunning creativity in Canada? Preternatural pizzazz in Paris? Oh, why do so many great pianists come from this or that country? We even have some in Britain; is th