The best classical music of 2011: Fiona Maddocks's choice

Amazing orchestras, opera premieres and Wagner in a Cornish church stay in the mindThis year's riots and protests to some degree penetrated the usually self-contained world of music. When word spread that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra would play at the BBC Proms, everyone anticipated trouble. It proved the case. Hecklers shouted in the Royal Albert Hall, bringing the Radio 3 live broadcast to a halt. Players from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among several signatories of a letter to a n...

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