MUSIC
May 2013
This year could mark the coming of age of Poland as a musical nation. What took so long?
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April 2013
The Royal Opera House’s chief executive is returning to the BBC after a dozen successful years
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March 2013
Steeped in the grand tradition, Charles Rosen was the archetypal philosopher-pianist
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January/February 2013
The mythologizing about Wolfgang Amadeus is incessant. As a result, the music is lost
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Written each month by the concert and operatic tenor Ian Bostridge
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