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It is so rare to hear the Gurre Lieder live that most of us are acquainted with it only on record. A new concert recording of this liminal composition aims to join the pantheon.
Read MoreSchubert's bleak, tumultuous song cycle, Winterreise, is the subject of tenor Ian Bostridge's passionate new book. Greg Waldmann examines Schubert's Winter Journey, and the trouble with hard-to-love classical music.
Read MoreMany composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?
Read MoreThough most people don't understand musical notation or the theory underlying it, nearly all classical music writing relies on it. Today, the initiate has a better option: YouTube.
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