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Contents that may be read on Lebrecht weekly:
2009/02/04.
Shutting down at number one: death comes to Decca
2009/02/04.
The BBC climbs back on board
2009/01/28.
Barack Obama's New Deal for the arts
2009/01/21.
The maestros who are making Paris a music capital, at last
2009/01/14.
A different sprig of heather
2009/01/14.
The face of modern opera
2009/01/07.
The Miller's return
2008/12/31.
The homage we owe to creators
2008/12/17.
New
head for dead body
2008/12/17.
Whatever happened to Mendelssohn?
2008/12/10.
A Mahler dream come true
2008/12/03.
How to hook the next generation
2008/11/26.
The English interpreter
2008/11/12.
The rise of an orchestral superpower
2008/11/12.
Opera catches a cold
2008/11/05.
Gulf orchestra a mirage
2008/11/05.
This is one musical too far
2008/10/29.
New man at the Bank
2008/10/29.
Last of the great pianists
2008/10/22.
Katherine cashes in her opera chips
2008/10/22.
Why
the fate of music hinges on a $20 million violin
2008/10/16.
Gergiev is selling us short
2008/10/08.
Anyone for cafe culture?
2008/10/01.
Let
the concert wars commence
2008/09/24.
Was
this TV's finest hour?
2008/09/24.
Chocs
for aunties at the seaside band
2008/09/17.
The
Kaiser's legacy
2008/09/17.
Whatever
became of specialist conductors?
2008/09/12.
Three
Cheers for the Proms. Now will the BBC Learn?
2008/09/10.
Why
Messaien doesn't raise my spirits
2008/09/10.
Karajan's Drive for Power at Salzburg Examined
2008/09/03.
So
which of the Beecham stories are true?
2008/09/01.
Richly
miserable
2008/08/28.
Daniel
Barenboim, Everything is Connected Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
£16.99
2008/08/27.
Edinburgh
needs a new dawn
2008/08/20.
Can
music add years to your life?
2008/08/13.
Take
back the cultural Olympics from the bureaucrats
2008/07/30.
Russian
to the rescue
2008/07/09.
Natalie
Dessay - A different class of diva
2008/07/02.
How
London fever beat New York lucre
2008/07/02.
What's
the use of producer opera?
2008/06/25.
How
YouTube shrank the classical world
2008/06/24.
`Third
Man' Museum Digs Up Vienna's Past
2008/06/18.
Putting
a different spin on the record business
2008/06/11.
Big
composer who acted small
2008/06/04.
They
really would do anything
2008/05/28.
How
do you solve a problem like the Fuhrer?
2008/05/23.
Why
does the Southbank need another £16.5 million?
2008/05/11.
A
New Hero for the Cello
2008/05/07.
The
music revolution starts here
2008/04/30.
The
Vaughan Identity
2008/04/28.
Birtwistle's
Musical Creatures Lure Londoners
2008/04/23.
A
new hero for the cello
2008/04/16.
Bayreuth isn't safe with the Wagner sisters
2008/04/16.
And
this man is a classical hero?
2008/04/16.
Virtuoso
Vengerov Gets Bored, Retreats
2008/04/16.
Bayreuth
isn't safe with the Wagner sisters
2008/04/10.
I
can't bear the synthetic sound of this fuhrer with a baton
2008/04/09.
This
Arts Council farce has lost the plot
2008/04/09.
An
opera house by any other name
2008/04/05.
The
clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music
2008/04/04.
Trisexual?
Tell It to England's Arts Council
2008/04/02.
Is
a Strad a sound investment?
2008/04/02.
China's
new star on the guitar
2008/03/26.
Why
talent is forced to go it alone
2008/03/26.
Chasing
a music that didn’t exist
2008/03/05.
Kennedy's
hit and miss
2008/03/05.
A new view of Mahler
2008/03/05.
Kennedy's hit and miss
2008/02/27.
Atonement's Oscar strikes the right note
2008/02/27.
Gordon gets it right with culture
2008/02/22.
Maazel's Troops Bumble Into Korean Ambush
2008/02/20.
La Scala Goes to the Movies, too
2008/02/20.
Is pop music bad for your health?
2008/02/19.
Barenboim's Beethoven Will Resound for Decades
2008/02/13.
Classical music goes clubbing
2008/02/13.
Barenboim's piano prodigy
2008/02/06.
Gabriela Montero - The pianist who plays My Way
2008/02/06.
Don't
bank on your sponsors
2008/01/30.
Don't put more fans on boards
2008/01/30.
The monster and his myth
2008/01/23.
The future of music is free
2008/01/09.
When a movie outshines the oustanding original
Who
cares where conductors come from? / January 9, 2008
When
a movie outshines the oustanding original / January
9, 2008
Now the Arts
Council really has lost the plot / December 21, 2007
Last
love of a piano legend / December 19, 2007
Stockhausen
gets a second wind / December 12, 2007
Rattle's
net gains / December 5, 2007
Glyndebourne
gets in groove / November 21, 2007
The
arts are coloured brown / November 21, 2007
New
hot rod in the podium / November 14, 2007
Tales
of the recording angel / October 31, 2007
The
missing link in the reel / October 24, 2007
Heavy
reading / October 17, 2007
We’re
going to make a classical star / October 17, 2007
Kennedy’s
classical comeback / October 10, 2007
Singing
in the last chance saloon / October 3, 2007
London
needs to form its own arts council / October 3, 2007
A
round of applause for Riccardo Muti / September 26,
2007
How
Nureyev played the fame game / September 26, 2007
Master
of no Musick / September 19, 2007
Is
Natalie the new du Pre? / September 19, 2007
Dressed
to impress / September 12, 2007
Why
Bryn walked out of Wagner’s Ring / September 12,
2007
He
made the world smile / September 6, 2007
How
the classical record industry is fighting back / August
30, 2007
The
joy of Solti's last concert / August 30, 2007
In
bed with the Fuhrer / August 22, 2007
Why
the stars aren’t out in Salzburg / August 15, 2007
Best
sound man in the business / August 15, 2007
The
man who put opera on the front page / August 8, 2007
How
to ruin a Prom / August 1, 2007
Can
the young blades cut the big stuff? / August 1, 2007
The
first musicians of Auschwitz / July 27, 2007
Kurt
Masur: The survivor’s tale / July 11, 2007
Uncalculated
disaster / July 5, 2007
The
best pianist you've never heard / July 5, 2007
Catching
up with the rising Juro / June 27, 2007
Urban
disaster: the opera / June 20, 2007
Much
improved, and much to prove / June 13, 2007
Opera
makes its next media move / June 6, 2007
Shut
that noise / June 6, 2007
Sounding better on the south Bank / May 30, 2007
The
boy who would be Wagner / May 30, 2007
Max
and the missing half a million / May 24, 2007
All
they needed was love / May 24, 2007
Piano
genius with mass appeal / May 16, 2007
Odd
couple returns to Broadway / May 9, 2007
Classic
choice for the iPod generation / May 9, 2007
Classical
honours for Sting and McCartney / May 2, 2007
Slava,
the naive and sentimental / May 2, 2007
China's
musical revolution / April 18, 2007
Why
Alagna walked out - he says / April 11, 2007
Who
says he's Elgar the Great? / April 11, 2007
How
do you solve a problem called laryngitis? / March 28,
2007
Save
our People’s Opera / March 28, 2007
The
Classic Million-sellers / March 21, 2007
British
Museum Steals a March on China / March 14, 2007
ENO’s
death by 1,000 cuts / February 28, 2007
How
Gorecki makes his music – an exclusive interview
Norman Lebrecht / February 28, 2007
Tusa’s
shoes / February 21, 2007
How
to make a classical fake / February 21, 2007
End
of the road for opera's lovers / February 7, 2007
No
more downloads from the BBC / February 7, 2007
It's
a blogger's world / January 31, 2007
Waiting
for the axe to fall / January 31, 2007
Clearing
Prime Time for Tchaikovsky / January 24, 2007
We
need a national instrument fund / January 18, 2007
Where
Kylie met Akram / January 18, 2007
Get
those pants off my stage / January 10, 2007
Love’s
laments lost / January 10, 2007
A
Tale of Two Women / January 3, 2007
The
future is Latin / January 3, 2007
How
to avoid anniversary fatigue / December 27, 2006
Don't
be shy - sing in the streets / December 22, 2006
Brought
to book, one last time / December 20, 2006
Stop
the opera, I want to get off / December 13, 2006
Onto
the sub-continent / December 7, 2006
Brought
to their knees / December 7, 2006
How
Wayne will change the Royal Ballet / December 5, 2006
Vandalising
a Beatles shrine / November 29, 2006
The
best of British to Covent Garden / November 29, 2006
Wanted:
a new vision to rescue the BBC / November 28, 2006
Opera
finds a new world / November 22, 2006
Radio
3 is not out of tune / November 17, 2006
A
walk on the web side / November 8, 2006
Berlin's
Perfume doesn't smell so sweet / November 1, 2006
The
elephant in the Arts Council room / October 25, 2006
ABBA
Sung by Mezzo-Soprano Still Sounds Crass: Norman Lebrecht
/ October 5, 2006
Sting
switches strings / September 27, 2006
The
Barbican means business / September 20, 2006
Musicians
must come down to earth / September 13, 2006
Why
there’s a hole in the Proms / September 6, 2006
A
Game of Haydn Seek / August 30, 2006
Rattle
has a battle on his hands / August 23, 2006
More
cracks opening in the Shostakovich code / August 18,
2006
A
subtext for deepening confusions: Steve Reich at 70
/ August 9, 2006
How
would you like to be locked in the quiet room? / August
2, 2006
The
Piano Man / July 26, 2006
Is
the South Bank safe in these hands? / July 24, 2006
The
future lies in the past / July 12, 2006
The
man who is changing the sound of the BBC / July 5, 2006
South
Bank 'vision' falls short of expectations / June 29,
2006
The
old composer, his wife and his lovers / June 28, 2006
Tosca
scores again / June 14, 2006
Another
record crash / June 12, 2006
There's
no boating like show boating / May 31, 2006
How
I dread the sound of silence / May 26, 2006
Fear
and loathing at the opera / May 17, 2006
The
trouble with boys / May 10, 2006
And
he shall build Jerusalem / May 3, 2006
Put
out more flags for English music / April 26, 2006
Life
and death without the hocus-pocus / April 25, 2006
Watch
out for the lightning conductor / April 19, 2006
An
art that silences women / April 12, 2006
Ban
this freak show / April 11, 2006
Ring-and-ring-a-download
/ April 5, 2006
Vandals
at the museum door / March 29, 2006
Battles
over Bolshoi / March 22, 2006
Time
to break the stranglehold of state funding / March 8,
2006
ENO's
new music director / March 7, 2006
How
the festival floundered / March 1, 2006
The
Shame of La Belle France / March 1, 2006
How
Domingo Killed the Three Tenors / February 22, 2006
An
introduction to chamber musicals / February 15, 2006
Are
we scared of going mad? / February 8, 2006
Letting
the streets in / February 1, 2006
Finding
his inner Mozart / January 25, 2006
Where
are ENO's angels? / January 11, 2006
An
art is born / January 11, 2006
ENO
drops music director / December 28, 2005
How
The Producers went sour on me / December 28, 2005
English
National Opera Chairman Resigns / December 21, 2005
Will
music be safe in their hands? / December 21, 2005
Too
much Mozart makes you sick / December 14, 2005
Reliving
the Munich massacre / December 13, 2005
A
fright at the opera / December 7, 2005
Bitter
tears over operatic blunder / November 30, 2005
Fresh
turmoil at ENO / November 29, 2005
Who
can save Edinburgh? / November 23, 2005
Have
an enjoyable Holocaust trip / November 21, 2005
Making
an opera out of a crisis / November 16, 2005
Hallelujah
- it's Messiah in miniature / November 9, 2005
Scenes
from a Revolution / November 2, 2005
Watch
out for the Pavamingo / October 27, 2005
Counting
the Freeloaders / October 19, 2005
A
cry for help / October 12, 2005
The
fiddler who should be banned / October 5, 2005
How
racist is Oliver Twist? / September 29, 2005
The
Koestler Conundrum / September 27, 2005
Meet
the MyWaymen / September 21, 2005
Why
Music Doesn't Pay / September 14, 2005
Why
give a day to the mad scientist of music? / September
7, 2005
Why
do they do it? / August 31, 2005
Playing
the Survivor / August 24, 2005
Death
of the Library? / August 22, 2005
The
little label musicians love / August 10, 2005
Jude
and the Obscure / August 3, 2005
The
loneliest job on earth / July 27, 2005
In love and despair / July 25, 2005
Another
slice of heritage? / July 20, 2005
Why
are the Aussies running our arts? / July 6, 2005
The
buzz about Beethoven / June 29, 2005
Sex,
drugs and symphony orchestras / June 22, 2005
Those
wicked old Wagners / June 15, 2005
The
New Designer Label / June 8, 2005
Prisoner
of the Opera
/ June 1, 2005
Show
me some ID / May 29, 2005
Time
to change tune / May 19, 2005
Makers
of the modern world / May 13, 2005
Free
Beethoven Now / May 5, 2005
English
Composers Lost at the Proms / April 27, 2005
see also Marc
Bridle reports on the forthcoming Proms Festival
Big
Brother Goes to the Opera
/ April 21, 2005
Whose
music is it anyway? / April 13, 2005
The
Mystery of Margot Fonteyn / April 7, 2005
Tomorrow's
hall today / March 30, 2005
Toppling
the tyrant at La Scala / March 23, 2005
Musical
numbers that don't add up / March 17, 2005
Sounding
off on the South Bank / February 24, 2005
A
chorus of approval / February 16, 2005
Who's
afraid of classical concerts? / February 10, 2005
And
the bands play on / February 2, 2005
Karl
Amadeus Hartmann - One Good German / January 27, 2005
Going
off the rails / January 20, 2005
Getting
Rattled / January 12, 2005
On
the fiddle / January 5, 2005
Another
record year / December 30, 2004
Michael
Tippett - A composer to Forget / December 22, 2004
Banned
by the Met / December 15, 2004
British
Opera's Ring of woes / December 8, 2004
The
House is rocking / November 17, 2004
Springtime
for the Musical / November 15, 2004
How
the Met was fixed / November 11, 2004
Valery
Gergiev: 'I don't want us to be remembered for Beslan' /
November 3, 2004
Herbert
Breslin – The man behind Pavarotti / October
28, 2004
Anne-Sofie von Otter - The baroque diva who has turned to pop
/ October 21, 2004
Notes
of caution will kill orchestras / October 14, 2004
Bela
Bartok - There's a composer at the next station / September
30, 2004
Lloyd Webber's latest - a ghost of an opera / September
24, 2004
CD2:
Abbado's Brahms First / September 18, 2004
How
biopics lost the plot / September 18, 2004
The
Definitive CDs / September 1, 2004
Two
Classes of Orchestra / August 20, 2004
Star
spangled manner / August 11, 2004
Classic
Follies on British Concert Halls / August 4, 2004
Carlos
Kleiber: Not a great conductor / July 30, 2004
Sony
Walkman - Music to whose ears? / July 26, 2004
Simon
and Garfunkel - The Mother and child of reunions / July
18, 2004
A
Funny Thing Happened to Stephen Sondheim / July 14,
2004
The
novel of the opera / July 8, 2004
How
British opera is killing itself / June 23, 2004
Conductors
who score / June 15, 2004
Mikko
Franck - The beat generation / May 27, 2004
A
Tale of Two Writers / May 24, 2004
The
Two BBCs / May 20, 2004
Mahler's
Going for a song / May 13, 2004
Master
Marriner / May 5, 2004
The
band won't play on / April 28, 2004
The
Philadelphia Story / April 21, 2004
A
Revolution in the Stalls / April 16, 2004
Samuel
Taylor-Coleridge: One Hit Wonder / April 7, 2004
A
critical gap / March 31, 2004
The
Fight for Shostakovich / March 24, 2004
According
to Mel Gibson / March 17, 2004
Outsized
talents / March 10, 2004
It's
not about love, darling / March 3, 2004
Land
of Max and Harry / February 25, 2004
Why
the big music jobs are no-go arias / February 18, 2004
The
Music of Mel Brooks / February 4, 2004
Fit
for the future? / January 29, 2004
Power
of Song / January 21, 2004
Stretching the band / January 7, 2004
Look
who's been dumped / December 31, 2003 but see Dave
Hurwitz's reposte
Hector
Berlioz - The unloved genius / December 10, 2003
Daniel
Barenboim - Playing Politics / December 3, 2003
Music's
Missing Faces / November 26, 2003
Sounding
a revolution / November 5, 2003
Mariss
Jansons - Rattle gets a rival / October 29, 2003
Arnold
Schoenberg's Second string quartet - The day music went
mad / October 22, 2003
Dvorak
- Best thing since sliced bread / October 15, 2003
How
the PC brigade is destroying our orchestras / October
8, 2003
What
Makes a great critic / October 2, 2003
How
money men stole our brands / September 25, 2003
Changing
Hands / September 17, 2003
Funding
is for fools / September 11, 2003
No
Strings Attached / September 3, 2003
The
Lost Art / August 13, 2003
Prommers
ruin the Proms / August 6, 2003
Otto
Klemperer - Behind every great conductor / July 30,
2003
Gambling
with the lottery / July 9, 2003
Off
the record / July 2, 2003
A
Wizard Lesson for All / June 25, 2003
Down
on the South Bank / June 18, 2003
The
death of Luciano Berio - And then there were none /
June 11, 2003
Valery
Gergiev - Conducting History / May 28, 2003
Famous
Last Notes
/ May 21, 2003
Buying
Munich / May 14, 2003
When
Moutrage Catches the Buzz / May 8, 2003
Bong
go the classics
/ May 1, 2003
Way
to go, LSO / April 23, 2003
Rachmaninov
- Shrinking the Score
/ April 16, 2003
Show's
coming off the road
/ April 11, 2003
Leos'
Janac'ek - Animal magic / April 2, 2003
The
ultimate orchestral sensation / March 26, 2003
Striking
a false note / March 19, 2003
The
new disorder / March 12, 2003
Stalin:
his final victim / February 26, 2003
Hyperion's
Ted Perry - Patron Saint of Independents / February
19, 2003
Tale
of two opera companies / February 12, 2003
When
greatness grates / January 29, 2003
Monica
Mason - I like the idea of risk / January 22, 2003
Berthold
Goldschmidt - Stirrings af a Lost Composer / January
15, 2003
The
Unsung Sondheim / January 8, 2003
Mahler
comes Second at last / December 19, 2002
The
Real Szpilman Revealed / December 4, 2002
A
Classical Dilemma / November 27, 2002
John
Williams - The Magpie Maestro / November 20, 2002
Tomorrow,
the World / November 13, 2002
Daniel
Barenboim - The Paradox of the Peacemaker / November
6, 2002
The
Tragedy and the Truth / November 3, 2002
Stravinsky:
Missing from His Music / October 30, 2002
Drawing
the Classical Line / October 23, 2002
Can
ENO Win Again? / October 16, 2002
The
next big thing? / October 14, 2002
Whose
Music Is It Anyway?
/ October 10, 2002
Payback
time for Vilar / October 2, 2002
The
poison in the opera house split / October 2, 2002
William
Lyne Retires - Sunset on a golden era / September 25,
2002
Classical
music plays away
/ September 19, 2002
Leonard
Slatkin - Last Night of the Proms
/ September 11, 2002
Dispelling
the Scotch myth / September 7, 2002
Entering
the realm of fiction / September 4, 2002
Death
becomes them / August 29, 2002
Alberto
Vilar - The benefactor and his bride / August 14, 2002
Still
all white on the night / August 7, 2002
Too
popular by half / August 6, 2002
Haitink's
Legacy / July 17, 2002
RSC
could crown wrong head / July 10, 2002
Where
has the competition gone? / July 3, 2002
Composers
fall off the radar / June 26, 2002
Conductors
drop their batons / June 19, 2002
Why
I'm sick of Mozart / June 12, 2002
This
age of unenlightenment / June 5, 2002
The
Classical Brit - It's one big classical charade / May 22,
2002
Stuck
in a digital radio daze / May 14, 2002 see
receiver
on sale I have one and it is every bit as good as Norman
says it is
Stop
messing with our Mahler / May 9, 2002
Why
they're all losing their heads / May 2, 2002
Orchestral
manoeuvres on the air / April 25, 2002
Why
conductors have great sex / April 17, 2002
Let
Chopin's dirge rest in peace / April 10, 2002
The
Wagners and the rabbi / April 3, 2002
London
needs Russell Johnson / March 27, 2002
Record
industry goes into terminal phase / March 20, 2002
A
rarely seen grandeur / March 7, 2002
After
a decade on the cultural front line, it's time to say goodbye
/ March 7, 2002
Probably
the worst time in recorded history / February 20, 2002
Classical
music makes great strides / February 13, 2002
Uri
Caine - Musician who breaks all the boundaries / February
6, 2002
Culture
slips through the net / January 31, 2002
Exit the maestro / January 23, 2002
Only
one man can save the South Bank - and that's Mandelson /
January 16, 2002
How
Walton killed his own talent / January 9, 2002
Kurt
Sanderling - At last, a maestro departs with dignity /
January 3, 2002
Online
Musicians' Diaries Superficial / December 27, 2001
Throw
away the Christmas rapping / December 19, 2001
We
can handle more than Messiahs / December 12, 2001
Cheap
crossovers are doing nothing for the integrity of an art on
the wane./ December 5, 2001
Can
these youngsters beat time? / November 28, 2001
Unwelcome
echoes from beyond / November 21, 2001
Faint-hearts
are doing us a favour / November 14, 2001
A
crescendo of cash crises / November 7, 2001
Ghetto
blasting / October 31, 2001
Discordant
saga / October 24, 2001
Michael
Kaiser - Can he see off the gremlins? / October 17,
2001
A
time to show courage / October 10, 2001
Musicians
on the corporate scrapheap / October 3, 2001
Who
was Mahler? / September 26, 2001
Responding
to tragedy / September 19, 2001
The
marriage of mobiles and music / September 12, 2001
Digital
dos and don'ts / September 5, 2001
Disgrace
of a South Bank Show That's Going Nowhere / August 30,
2001
Cultural
perversity / August 22, 2001
Temple
to concert hall, via Vatican / August 15, 2001
Beware
music's healing power / August 9, 2001
The
appointment of Andre Previn - How not to choose a music director
/ July 18, 2001
Sweating
it out in the House / July 11, 2001
Why
We're Still Afraid of Schoenberg / July 8, 2001
Requiem
for the classical record / July 4, 2001
Tessa
Blackstone - The Red Baroness swoops in / June 27, 2001
Only
heroes could save Berlin and the Bolshoi / June 20,
2001
The
Problem with Chris Smith, Former Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport / June 14, 2001
We
stand for excellence says Tony Hall / June 6, 2001
Lorin
Maazel - Older and More Mellow / May 30, 2001
A
new future for opera? / May 23, 2001
The
Kirov cure / May 16, 2001
Nigel
Kennedy - Practice makes perfect / May 9, 2001
The
chamber revolution / May 2, 2001
Why
conducting is a health hazard / April 25, 2001
Cyberspace
spawns a Mahler legend / April 18, 2001 (read
all about us)
Royal
Festival Hall at 50 - A hollow-sounding birthday bash
/ April 11, 2001
Why
we're awash with sorry soaps / April 4, 2001
Banging
the drum for art / March 28, 2001
Set
the arts free and see what can happen / March 21, 2001
Leaders
of a lost generation / March 14, 2001
PC
in the Arts / March 11, 2001
They
think it's all overpriced / Marsh 7, 2001
Propaganda
Wars / February 28, 2001
Bands
play on as crisis looms / February 21, 2001
Viktoria
Mullova - Ice Queen melts to the blues / February 14,
2001
Time
to take stock / January 31, 2001
Could
Silver Fox, the manager of maestros, be losing his grip?
/ January 24, 2001
Baton
handover / January 17, 2001
Grove
has grown too fat / January 10, 2001
My
manifesto for a richer life / January 3, 2001
Conductors
of the New Century / December 31, 2000
Little
sympathy for British symphonies / December 27, 2000
Is
Covent Garden looking for a new chairman, too? / December
20, 2000
Italy
still needs its operatic saviour / December 13, 2000
Generosity gap / December 6, 2000
Chaos
reigns on the South Bank' / November 29, 2000
The
job that can't be done / November 22, 2000
Top
brass paid for top brass / November 15, 2000
Invaders
win Berlin's culture war / November 1, 2000
True
pioneers deserve better / October 25, 2000
Thomas
Quasthoff - A wonderfully vocal minority / October 18,
2000
A
blast of Birtwistle / October 14, 2000
Concert-Hall
Blues - Oh for an Acceptable Symphonic Environment /
October 11, 2000
Rumours
at NYPO / October 4, 2000
The
floundering state of the arts / September 29, 2000
Forecourt
wars - Universal plans on taking on Naxos / September
20, 2000
The
rise and fall of Michael Kaiser / September 12, 2000
Living
on the edge - Reputations are on the line as audience opinion
goes live on Radio 3 / September 6, 2000
A
Return to Arts Rationing - Why BBC4 will Fail / August
30, 2000
He
might be smiling now... - Franz Welser-Möst Returns to
Conduct the Proms / August 16, 2000
British
Pianism and the Art of the Possible / August 9, 2000
Salzburg
Teaches the French a Lesson on Les Troyens / August
3, 2000
On
Wagner / July 26, 2000
The
declining importance of the arts in the political agenda
/ July 19, 2000
Long
Live the Russian Revolution / July 12, 2000
Bucks
stop here -- The Biggest Need Not Be the Best / July
5, 2000
A
maestro need not be a mister / June 29, 2000
Not
All Is Lost - the Decline of Serious Music Criticism
/ June 28, 2000
Ida Haendel - The One They Don't Want You to Hear /
June 22, 2000
Noxious
Crossover / June 14, 2000
How
Smith Has Crippled Culture / June 7, 2000
Mariss
Jansons - High Drama on the Podium / May 31, 2000
Scots
Grip Vienna / May 24, 2000
Zemlinsky
Biography Reviewed / May 17, 2000
Good
Managers Are Hard to Find / May 10, 2000
Heard
But No Longer Seen / May 3, 2000
One
more knell for classical recording / April 26, 2000
The
Battle for Berlin's Heart / April 19, 2000
Punishment
by Puccini / April 12, 2000
The
True Humanity of Alma Rosé / April 5, 2000
Pierre
Boulez - Playing with Propaganda / March 22, 2000
Pierre
Boulez - Jouer avec la propagande / le 22 mars 2000
(version française)
Nina
Kotova - From Catwalk to Concert Hall / March 15, 2000
The
Demon Drink / March 8, 2000
Not
resisting but gesturing / March 1, 2000
New
Contender in the Battle for the Upper Shelves / February
23, 2000
Roberto
Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu -- The Singing World's Golden Couple?
/ February 16, 2000
Why
artists have a duty not to ostracise Austria / February
10, 2000
Libraries
-- Going...going...gone? / February 9, 2000
Domingo
Sings Das Lied von der Erde / February 2, 2000
Shostakovich
- Dissident Notes / January 19, 2000
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