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As a teenager, I used to be a ballet nut and now - after a long gap - I've resumed. Discovering a few friends who are also ballet nuts i...

Hooray for the internet! Good books on music are ever rarer and go out of print ever faster. When I was researching my Faure book, I stum...

Written through a growing pile of tissues...My work doesn't often induce tears, but this is an exception. Philippe Graffin's new...

Great musicians...oh yes, they exist and many of them are properly recognised. Argerich, Barenboim, Zimerman, Lupu... But the way the wheels...

Opened The Guardian this morning to find a massive article about Erich Wolfgang Korngold and his two finest operas, Die tote Stadt and Das W...