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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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Take that, Classic FM!

The Cheltenham Music Festival is an unlikely setting for artistic rebellion.

Mozart: the Complete Violin Concertos

Mozart: the Complete Violin Concertos

This recording for Nonesuch captures the restlessness of the young Mozart

Still turning world

The Long-Player Goodbye Travis Elborough Sceptre, 480pp, £14.99 Old Rare New: the Independent Record Shop Emma Pettit Black Dog Publishing, 144pp, £19.95

The colour of music

The colour of music

The dissonance and abstraction of 20th-century composers influenced a generation of visual artists

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The sounds of music

The sounds of music

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks Picador, 352pp, £17.99

The shock of the new

We love contemporary art and literature. So why does music have such an image problem?

Retro appeal

Music - Stephanie Merritt on the new stars and old-stagers we'll be listening to this summer

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