SOFIA GUBAIDULINA An exclusive interview with Russia’s top composer

A celebration of the brilliant Birmingham orchestra THE CBSO CENTENARY

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The Great Caruso

How the Italian tenor became music’s first

global superstar

John Wilson The conductor on the rebirth of an

iconic orchestra

Also in this issue Gra yna Bacewicz Debussy’s Préludes

Noriko Ogawa Enrique Granados Mariss Jansons

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