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Earlier this season, Music Director Robert Trevino and his Basque National Orchestra presented a unique series of concerts with the programme kept entirely secret. It was a sensational success. But no-one knew, says Robert Trevino, just how great a risk it was
Peter Quantrill champions the Austrian conductor and pedagogue who once wavered between the callings of music and psychoanalysis, and about whom many still wax lyrical
In the first of a three-part series, Michael Quinn talks about Schubert's symphonies to conductors, Sir Colin Davis, Roger Norrington and Frans Briiggen and Schubert scholar Brian Newbould
In the second of a three-part series, Harriet Smith talks about Schubert's piano and chamber music with pianists Imogen Cooper, András Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida and string-players Christophe Coin and Thomas Kakuska
In the last of a three-part series, Hilary Finch talks about Schubert's vocal music with singers Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Ian Bostridge and David Wilson-Johnson and pianists Graham Johnson and David Owen Norris
Today's most fascinating musicians are those forging their own paths
Conductor Vasily Petrenko shares his feelings about the piece with Andrew Farach-Colton
Including outstanding new releases from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Alexandre Tharaud
An exclusive insight into the recording sessions for Kate Lindsey's new album
To mark Mieczysław Weinberg’s centenary, David Fanning explores the ever-growing catalogue of the Russian composer’s extraordinary and underappreciated music
James Jolly's fortnightly playlist includes a taster of Víkingur Ólafsson's much-anticipated new album 'Debussy - Rameau', Ruby Hughes singing Rhian Samuel's Clytemnestra, Jean-Philippe Collard in Granados's Goyescas and Sheku Kanneh-Mason's Elgar Cello Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle
Composer Mhairi Hall introduces her special collaboration with landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes
Boris Giltburg has set himself the challenge of undertaking filmed performances of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas this year. Here he introduces the project and gets things underway with the First Sonata
Whether he’s conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Bruckner or the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven, Andris Nelsons is mindful of the profound, indefinable connection between a conductor and his musicians, he tells Peter Quantrill
Looking ahead to Beethoven year, and remembering Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury
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