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What exactly is a beautiful sound?

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  • Friday, March 20, 2015
  • | Gramophone
Bob Dylan’s defence of his own singing voice raises questions about the perception of beauty in music that composers and musicians can’t afford to ignore

Sviatoslav Richter centenary tribute

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  • Friday, March 20, 2015
  • | Gramophone
Jed Distler looks at the career and recordings of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, a performer whose range of repertoire was as large as it was idiosyncratic

Luciano Pavarotti – the birth of a legend

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  • Friday, March 13, 2015
  • | Gramophone
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Pavarotti’s voice evolved into a thing of great beauty. Philip Kennicott charts Pavarotti’s progress from callow artist to self-sustaining singer

Maria Callas – the Tosca sessions

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  • Thursday, March 12, 2015
  • | Gramophone
Maria Callas’s famous 1953 Tosca, as Christopher Cook reveals for the first time, was riven by tension and driven by a relentless quest for perfection