MUSIC
April 2019
In classical music nothing happens overnight, but the rise of female conductors marks a massive change
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March 2019
The Scots, Welsh and Irish have an authentic tradition of folk songs. England demonstrably does not
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February 2019
The London staging of Hänsel und Gretel was far superior to Berlin’s ludicrously bad production
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November 2018
Scottish music and culture is playing second fiddle to an increasingly nationalist and socialist agenda
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Written each month by the concert and operatic tenor Ian Bostridge
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