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Blogs - Andrew Mellor

How Steve Jobs taught me about music and life

Shuffle is what you make of it - and can enchant the brain

At home with Sibelius

Hearing Finnish music on its own soil, and visiting Ainola

Helsinki gets its ‘Music House’

A historic night in the music-loving Finnish capital

Nielsen, Langgaard and one of the strangest works in musical history

It's time to appreciate both composers

Thierry Fischer conducts Dalbavie at last night's Prom

Shock horror – new music gets some interpretation

Parallels and paradoxes in the two ‘Manchester’ proms

The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic back-to-back at the RAH

Why we should champion Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

The organ world’s chief engineer - and a chief inspiration

If language be the food of opera…

Two current productions linked by an intrinsic approach to text

Beyond Victoria

Discovering Iberian polyphony - in unlikely locations

Is Glyndebourne better on tour?

Scaling-down its productions sometimes works in Glyndebourne’s favour