MUSIC’S HEALING POWERS

How opera has been coming to the aid of Covid-19 sufferers

JOSQUIN DESPREZ

The popular hero of the Renaissance era

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60th BIRTHDAY INTERVIEW

Stephen Hough

From sonatas to songs, the piano polymath shares

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Bruckner’s

Fifth We name the finest recordings

Dancing with

the devil The composers inspired by Dante

Richard Carpenter The pianist’s favourite works Taking the waters A musical guide to Bath Richard Morrison Let’s celebrate unknown opera!

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The unlikely tale of Leoncavallo’s Zingari

Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster Laurence Cummings

Francesca Dego Laurence Equilbey

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