Fiona Maddocks's best classical music of 2010

The Observer's classical music critic looks back on a good year for Mahler, opera at the movies and legends of the past on YouTubeChopin, Schumann and Mahler were the headline trio of 2010. Only one was elevated from mere anniversary composer to full-blown trend. You couldn't move for Mahler symphony cycles. Man on bus with cowbells and hammer? Mahler's sixth again. Urgently seeking a spare tenor horn? That'll be the seventh. The BBC Proms season, in a box-office record-breaking year, launched w...

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