Birmingham based violinist wins prestigious music award - RPS/ABO Salomon Prize

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Against all trends, musicians still join union. by Norman Lebrecht

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Want to buy a classical CD? Don't go to New York!

The joys of browsing and sampling CDs in a specialist store shop are increasingly hard to come by, and almost impossible if you're a New Yorker. What a shame.



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Raphael Wallfisch: cellist son of Holocaust survivor honours the dead

Musician is son of woman who survived Auschwitz and Belsen and helped found the English Chamber Orchestra



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In Tan Dun's Earth Concerto, clay and ceramic pots become instruments.

Guest percussionist David Cossin shares the unique experience of shopping for instruments at a garden store



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Opera Hamilton ceasing operations

Opera Hamilton began with so much promise back in 1980 as an outgrowth of Festitalia which had imported operatic productions from Italy in the late 1970s.



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Lottery cash spares English arts groups from big cuts

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