CLASSICAL MUSIC
April 2016
The life force has vanished from the capital’s classical music scene in recent years. Who is to blame?
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November 2015
A performance of a modern Israeli classic in a run-down German city put the world’s woes in perspective
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October 2015
The great cellist Yo-Yo Ma at 60 is still phenomenal
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October 2015
Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge
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