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Must we witness Denmark’s great operatic decline?

Tough decisions face the Royal Danish Opera but it doesn’t have to end in tragedy

An Englishman abroad

Elgar’s Symphony No 1 - in Rome, for the first time in 95 years

Introducing New Music 20x12 - part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

Hear an excerpt from the first of 20 new works - Howard Skempton's Five Rings Triples

Sing or Swim

…a game for ruthless music-lovers

Stephen Hough plays Morton Feldman at Wigmore Hall

The pianist talks about the silent but deadly impact of early Feldman

A composite version of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin

Drawn from the Hall of Fame nominees

Disengagement rings

Phones, coughs... but is it our right to request silence?

A Matter of Opinion

At what point does following the composer’s instructions become ‘interpretation’?

Dave Brubeck at 91

Jazz improviser - or composer? It's a fantastic problem to have