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Williams first met Ax in 1994 in the very venue this new concerto was premiered. In 2022, Ax read a New York Times article ...

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Anna Lapwood – the outgoing Director of Music at Pembroke College Cambridge and now the first official organist of the Royal ...

From Hildegard in the 12th century through to the present day, women have made a significant contribution to classical music which has often been overlooked ...

These terrible album covers will make you laugh and then violently cringe Here are the very worst classical album covers of all time. Weird, funny, alarming and perplexing all at the same time - who ...

Hieronymus Bosch is famous for his intricate and macabre visions of hell. But have you ever noticed this bizarre ditty, branded onto a poor sinner’s naked backside in his most famous painting?

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