Richard Fairman

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The 21st century has not been kind to the UK classical music festivals founded in the heady days of optimism after the second world war.

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Period instruments might have been invented to play Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Classical music by Richard Fairman At Large: Behind the Camera with Brian Large by Brian Large and Jane Scovell (Verlag für moderne...

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“Now is the time for Ukraine to become an independent state,” goes up the cry.

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The music most people associate with György Ligeti is his orchestral piece Atmosphères, used in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi film 2001: A...