MUSIC
May 2015
A startling new Hungarian grand is a postmodern marvel that would have delighted Liszt himself
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April 2015
Debates over the merits and value of new concert venues are raging in Paris, Munich and now London
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March 2015
Nervousness surrounds the search by the world's most admired orchestra for a new chief conductor
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January/February 2015
The elusive Dane is at last emerging from the shadow of his Finnish contemporary, Sibelius
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