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I’d Love To Turn You On review – How David Bowie, the Beatles and others stole from the great composers

I’d Love To Turn You On review – How David Bowie, the Beatles and others stole from the great composers

This compilation is a valuable reminder that even the most celebrated musicians didn’t think it all up on their own

Thu Feb 20 2020 - 06:15

Making music as a spontaneous, unpremeditated act

Making music as a spontaneous, unpremeditated act

Many great composers were also great improvisers, Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner among them

Wed Jul 19 2017 - 05:00

Koanga unchained: slavery, interracial love and jazz chords

Koanga unchained: slavery, interracial love and jazz chords

Frederick Delius’s rarely performed opera demolishes standard music history, and other composers owe it a debt that often goes unpaid

Tue Oct 20 2015 - 05:45

Juan Diego Flórez, it’s good to have you back

Juan Diego Flórez, it’s good to have you back

The downside to seeing the tenor’s NCH appearance was that I missed an apparently great Wexford production

Wed Oct 29 2014 - 01:00

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