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Junk Shop Classical On Debussy: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
There are plenty of classical music boffins who put Claude Debussy right up there – not above B...
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Junk Shop Classical On Carlos Kleiber: Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
I’m a sucker for a cult figure in music, and in classical music there’s barely a more cul...
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Junk Shop Classical On Stravinsky: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Igor Stravinsky was still in his 20s when a dream of a girl dancing herself to death in a...
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Junk Shop Classical On Joyce Hatto: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
In 1992, a critic for Gramophone magazine, which calls itself “the world's authority on c...
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Junk Shop Classical On Brahms: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his...
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Junk Shop Classical on George Walker: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
This summer, for the second year on the trot, I helped out on the Proms, commissioning a ...
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Junk Shop Classical on Vivaldi: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt f...
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Junk Shop Classical On Lili Boulanger: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
How’s this for a story? In 1920, a young woman dressed entirely in black walks into the f...
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Junk Shop Classical On Glenn Gould: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Glenn Gould, deceased Canadian pianist extraordinaire, is just the kind of oddball charac...
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Junk Shop Classical On Schubert: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record
Put yourself in the offices of the German wing of EMI records in 1985. A leading group, t...
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