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What Remains Behind
After hearing loss, facing a changed relationship with the music that felt like everything
A Matter of Perspective
The manuscripts of recently rediscovered works by Bach and Mozart have been around for decades. What changed?
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The Art of the Ideal
What classical institutions mean when they say that “music can change the world”
Welcome 2 Shorworld
With the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia and Max Richter all playing CMDI events, Shorworld is back—and even more ambitious
I Know, But: Andrea Bocelli
In an opera world flailing for mass appeal, there are worse things than an enthusiastic if underqualified crooner
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Music and illness
Conductor trouble
In Row Five
A conductor describes her first two days as an assistant under Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic in the late 1990s
Vasily Petrenko’s British Values
An interview with the conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Titan’s Shadow
Daniel Barenboim is a great musician and humanist. So why are so many people afraid of him?
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Stand By Your Man
As emails seen by VAN show a high level of internal pushback regarding Norman Lebrecht’s rehiring by BBC Radio 3, why did the station’s controller sack him now—and why was he rehired in the first place?
Is Post-Piece Silence a Recession Indicator?
Silence is a precious and dangerous tool. Use it at your peril.
Inside the UK’s Amateur University Opera Societies
What scrappy, low-budget opera for students gets right that professional opera doesn’t
(Almost) Every Piece by Darius Milhaud, Ranked
345 works from absolute turkeys to profound statements of faith
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An Old, New Song
What happens when the haunting imagery of “Winterreise” darkens into pathology?
I Know, But: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Seeing Past the Pastoral in Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Last But Not Least
