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Korngold’s mysterious opera “Die Tote Stadt” mixes Hitchcock and Freud
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was just 23 years old when he wrote the technically difficult opera - before he knew the limits of the voice, resulting in incredible changes of harmony and rhythm and a "crazy maze of different styles.”
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Time with the best: Vienna Philharmonic's mastery passed to Peruvian protégés
“Sinfonía por el Perú” is a project created eight years ago by Tenor Juan Diego Flórez which offers free music education to disadvantaged children. Fifty of the young group traveled to Saltzburg to learn from the best. Watch the Musica programme to see how they got on.
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Sir Antonio Pappano and Benjamin Bernheim enchant London with Puccini's 'Messa di Gloria'
When you hear the name Puccini the first thing you probably think about is opera: but the great Italian composer's first major work was a piece of church music, the "Messa di Gloria". The London Symphony Orchestra recently performed it at the Barbican Centre under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano.