The World of Music
Interesting facts and quirky stories from around the classical music world
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22/05/2013
Seven leading musicians – including Sir Mark Elder and soprano Deborah Voigt – tell us...
21/05/2013
Read the text for Brahms's A German Requiem, the work on this month's BBC Music Magazine...
03/05/2013
Watch our audio slideshow of paintings by Vermeer accompanied by music of his time
The World of Music
Australia may have lost the ashes, but they still have musicians to be pround of. Jeremy Pound selects his own First 11
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This year is the 200th anniversary of one of Russia’s greatest creative writers, Nikolay Gogol. Daniel Jaffé introduces his extraordinary works and the music they inspired
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James Naughtie rejoices that classical music is still being discovered by new audiences
Vienna at the turn of the 20th century was a boiling pot of innovation, writes James Naughtie, as he continues his journey through the history of music
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The 19th century was a boom era for classical music, says James Naughtie
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