Why we never hear the music of Franz Schmidt WRECKED BY THE NAZIS How the French composer invited us to welcome mortality FAURÉ’S HEAVENLY REQUIEM

The world’s best-selling classica l music magazine

150th anniversar y specia l

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How Mussorgsky achieved the perfect marriage of fine

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with Dalia Stasevska Creating a musical world

for Tudor epic Wolf Hall

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