Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bach complete keyboard works
/Amid the seasonal rock fall of weird-shaped box sets and unopenable recorded turkeys, one project stands out as indispensable in both musical and moral dimensions.
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Amid the seasonal rock fall of weird-shaped box sets and unopenable recorded turkeys, one project stands out as indispensable in both musical and moral dimensions.
Read MoreA great conductor writes a great biography about a great composer!
Read MoreMany composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?
Read MoreA batch of bedtime stories, wickedly recited by top actors, interspersed with music derived from the selfsame fairy tales. Why had no one thought of this before?
Read MoreOpen Letters mourns the loss of Charles Rosen, pianist, scholar, teacher and critic.
Read MoreThough most people don't understand musical notation or the theory underlying it, nearly all classical music writing relies on it. Today, the initiate has a better option: YouTube.
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