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Anti-Desert Island Discs | Charlotte Higgins

5387 days ago
Guardian MusicWhat pieces of music would you happily never hear again?Alan Bennett's diary for 2009, published as the annual January treat in the London Review of Books, contains an amusing entry for 20 February. "It's years," writes Bennett, "since I was on Deser... more info

Music and landscape

5391 days ago
Guardian MusicTom Service charts his melodic milestonesIt's not much to look at, the stretch of road between the Helensburgh roundabout and Luss, on the west side of Loch Lomond. But that small section of the A82 resounds with music for me – to be precise, ... more info

Why I love Porgy and Bess by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5392 days ago
Guardian MusicNikolaus Harnoncourt is finally to fulfil a 75-year ambition to conduct Porgy and Bess'It was like a worm in my liver. I had the feeling I must perform it." Nikolaus Harnoncourt is talking about one of his favourite pieces of music, one he spent much... more info

A HAPPY SONG TO LIFT THE GLOOM

5397 days ago
The Vinyl Villain For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, this is a particularly lousy time of the year. The excitement of Christmas Day has come and gone and all we have to look forward to is going back to the shops to stand in enormous queues looking for... more info

New Web site wishes Ludwig a happy b-day, 'Peanuts'-style

5408 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe site is the digital version of the popular museum exhibition 'Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse,' created by the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State and the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa... more info

Philharmonia/Mackerras

5408 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonThe Romantics made much of the idea of nature as a place of beauty and peril that offered an escape from the oppressions of mundane existence. The second of Charles Mackerras's Philharmonia concerts toyed with contrasting n... more info

Nowhere Boy: Original Soundtrack

5409 days ago
Here Comes The Flood Nowhere Boy is a movie portrait of an insecure young man who would become one of the biggest names in music ever. John Lennon was raised by his aunt Mimi, fell out with his mother Julia, and was saved by rock 'n' roll. The movie will be in theaters... more info

LPO/Saraste/Lupu | Classical review

5409 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonCult Romanian pianist Radu Lupu has always tended to pack houses and the Festival Hall was predictably heaving for his performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the London Philharmonic and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. In the... more info

Bullets over Beethoven: Julian Llloyd Webber is inspired by El Sistema during a visit to Venezuela

5412 days ago
Guardian MusicJulian Lloyd Webber travels to Venezuela to see the El Sistema youth orchestra project, which has inspired a similar scheme in the UK.Rory CarrollPascal Wyse more info

Bejun Mehta | Classical review

5413 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonMore than any other countertenor, Bejun Mehta has persisted in exploring the mainstream song repertoire composed between the late-18th and mid-20th centuries – in other words, at a time when the countertenor voice was itsel... more info

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