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Making waves: classical music and the rise of streaming

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  • Tuesday, October 6, 2015
  • | Gramophone
Streaming has changed the way an increasing number of people now listen to music, yet many record labels say that the numbers just don't add up. Charlotte Gardner looks at how the classical music industry is facing up to this fresh challenge

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final year

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  • Wednesday, September 30, 2015
  • | Gramophone
The story of the last 12 months of Mozart’s life and his shockingly early death at 35 became something of an obsession during the 19th century – a situation that has barely abated since. Richard Wigmore unfolds the chronology and music of that extraordinary and fateful year

The Shostakovich Question

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  • Thursday, September 24, 2015
  • | Gramophone
An isolated figure, working under one of the 20th century's most terrifying dictatorships, his music is emotional, controversial, misunderstood – and a guaranteed hall-filler. David Fanning asks: why are we obsessed with Shostakovich?