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  • The Nash Ensemble, joined by the BBC Singers, performs Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem at Wigmore Hall, London, on Tuesday 26 March, 2024. © The Wigmore Hall Trust, 2024

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  • Maurizio Pollino, pianist, photographed in Paris

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    Maurizio Pollini

    Pianist who won the Chopin competition at 19 and who had an intellectual approach to art and life
  • Anna Tsybuleva performing in the finals with Mark Elder in the Leeds international piano competition 2015

    Lost in music
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    Fiona Sinclair
    All five finalists at the last Leeds piano competition were male – a far from unique competition scenario. Now, the event’s CEO explains how they are dismantling barriers for female musicians
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    Maria Callas
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  • Catherine Bennett

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    Catherine Bennett
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    Mid Wales Opera
    Macbeth – powerful Verdi staging marks the end for a great company

  • Claire Booth sings with the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall.

    Nash Ensemble: A Birtwistle Celebration review – an intense and poetic tribute

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    The Sixteen review – alchemically distilled choral beauty

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    Duke Bluebeard’s Castle review – erotic, unsettling and beautifully staged

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    Timo Andres: The Blind Banister album review – original, arresting and eclectic

  • Lucas Debargue

    Fauré: Complete Piano Music album review – fresh and revealing insights into a quiet radical

  • Elisabeth Lutyens.

    Classical home listening: Elisabeth Lutyens Piano Works; Tchaikovsky and Korngold string sextets and more

  • Masuto Suzuki

    Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – robust and muscular

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People

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  • Martyn Brabbins rehearsing with English National Opera Orchestra at the Henry Wood Hall in London.

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    ENO’s music director resigns over proposed cuts to musical staff positions

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