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Junk Shop Classical On Anja Thauer: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
I was months into trying to find out more – or anything – about a German cellist called Anja Th...
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Junk Shop Classical on Henryk Górecki: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
On the 31 January 1993, something weird happened in the UK album chart. A piece of contemporary...
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Junk Shop Classical on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
At the end of the 19th century, word was spreading in English music circles of an outstanding n...
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Junk Shop Classical on George Antheil: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
There are some musicians who are so far ahead of their time that they're let down by the instru...
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Junk Shop Classical on Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
In 1826, a year before he died, Beethoven did something so unfathomable that it ranks as one of...
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Junk Shop Classical on Albinoni’s Adagio: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
This is the 16th of these monthly columns about £1 classical music records. I’ve learned so muc...
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Junk Shop Classical on Mstislav Rostropovich: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
The Proms are on for the 124th time and if, like me, you’re an anorak who goes to a lot of them...
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Junk Shop Classical On Clara Schumann: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Clara Schumann was a colossus of the piano in the 19th century – technically brilliant, exquis...
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Junk Shop Classical On Peter Warlock: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record
There's barely a more deathly read than the sleeve notes printed on the backs of classical reco...
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Junk Shop Classical On Decca & EMI: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Richard Wagner’s utterly preposterous The Ring Of The Nibelung is a cycle of four operas rangin...
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