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Roger Norrington: quiet radical and pioneer of historically informed performance

As a leading pioneer of the period performance movement, Roger Norrington transformed how we hear composers from Bach to Mahler. As he retired in 2022, he shared his memories with Julian Haylock
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Secrets of the castrati: the eye-watering surgery that created opera's greatest stars

Italian opera castrati enjoyed cult status in the 17th and 18th centuries but, explains Jeremy Pound, the path to stardom was a notoriously dangerous one
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Bob Dylan redefined music in just 45 minutes. Here's how he did it

As Timothée Chalamet returns to our screens as a young Bob Dylan, we take a look at two infamous - but crucial - moments in his whirlwind early career
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'I risked my life driving through Mexican gangland to get to my concert': baritone Benjamin Appl

Was Mozart's sister Nannerl the better musician?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a gifted older sister, Maria Anna, known as Nannerl. A prodigy in her own right, was Nannerl actually the more talented Mozart, asks Sylvia Milo
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Alfred Brendel, pianist: 1931-2025

The acclaimed pianist has died at the age of 94. Claire Jackson remembers a remarkable musician, writer and thinker
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Remembering the great pianist Alfred Brendel, who has died aged 94

The renowned pianist Alfred Brendel died at the age of 94 on 17 June. Here, we publish one of his final interviews, in which he recalls performing with legendary baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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‘Winning an orchestral role is like winning an Olympic medal': Canada's elite training scheme for orchestral musicians

Canada’s National Arts Centre is serious about education – and its flagship Orchestra is training the next crop of top musicians, writes Charlotte Smith
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