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Grammy Awards 2012: in pictures

Grammy Awards 2012: in pictures

Adele thanks "doctors who brought my voice back" as she takes home six Grammys.

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A year in culture: Pop music

Critics' Choice: The Best of 2011

"Through the Cervix of Hawwah": don't judge a song by its title

The oddly-named metal records you must listen to.

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A year in culture: Classical music

Critics' Choice: The Best of 2011

Gustav Mahler

Jens Malte Fischer
The sweet sound of piddling on flannel

The sweet sound of piddling on flannel

It’s not the sort of thing you’re supposed to mention in cultured company, but some people can’t stand Mozart –– and David Flusfeder is one of them. Isn’t it time we ditched the circus that comes with the myth of the mad child-genius of Salzburg?

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The left hand’s final frontier

Far-out jazz chat is all well and good, Keith, but tell us about the divorce

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The sound of love

The sound of love

The Tunisian vocalist Dhafer Youssef is one of the leaders of an exciting renaissance in Arabic music. A new generation of artists is engaging with both classical tradition and international audiences

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Wynton Marsalis: A kind of homecoming

Wynton Marsalis: A kind of homecoming

You can take the boy out of New Orleans, but you can't take New Orleans out of the boy.

Perspectives: M Nahadr

Perspectives: M Nahadr

M Nahadr, singer, on jazz, R’n’B and being an albino

Highly strung

Music - Natalie Brierley on the plucking excellence of ukuleles

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

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