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Brendel's tireless appetite

By Fiona Maddocks, Evening Standard 13.10.08 More reviews by Fiona Maddocks Not saying goodbye just yet: Alfred Brendel Beaming as he strode on stage, Alfred Brendel might have been starting a career, not ending one lasting...

Poland prepares for Chopin's bicentennial

Plans are well under way for a year of celebrations to mark the upcoming bicentennial of on of Poland's favorite native sons - The Polish Sejm, or Parliament, has declared 2010 the Year of Fryderyk Chopin, and special concerts,...

Family concert occasion for introduction

With the Philadelphia Orchestra's new artistic chief, Charles Dutoit, the reigning king of French repertoire, you might have expected to see him atop the podium in Verizon Hall on Saturday morning leading Poulenc's The Story of...

Malcolm Gladwell: Why do we equate genius with precocity?

Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had...

5. Rise of Krautrock

The wave of experimental music that began emerging from West Germany in the late 1960s known as Krautrock has long enjoyed great influence abroad yet often been overlooked at home. Few scenes in rock history have won such fame...

Kaleidoscope of culture

For lovingly preserved palaces, museums, traditional architectural styles and classical music Fall in love With the café culture of Vienna Home to Strauss, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert; every corner a photo opportunity;...

Play us a tune, Mr Piano Man! Our 'blundering buffoon' takes to the stage...

Play us a tune, Mr Piano Man! And then there is one blundering, clod-handed buffoon who has somehow slipped through the net and is also about to take part in Britain's first national 'pianothon'. Nervous: 'I realise that I am...

Let’s get QUIZical

1. Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 is referred to by which European city’s name? 2. Edward J. Smith is remembered for being the captain of which famous vessel? 3. The largest known carnivorous marsupial of ...

Print Pick

This fictionalised biography of the 13th-century Turkish Sufi mystic lingers over the creative relationships that gave rise to his mystical writings and leaves the mystery that surrounds them in place…At once a historical...

Classical Pick of the Week: Beethoven by the Best!

Efforts by mainstream media and Hollywood to use a Saint Bernard to replace Beethoven in our hearts and minds have failed, despite numerous attempts. As part of the Colburn Celebrity Series, Andras Schiff is halfway complete on...

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