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Bayreuth

Radical error David Mellor on Bayreuth's flawed new production of Tristan und Isolde T ristan und Isolde is perhaps the ulti- mate musical statement of the power of sensual......

Music

Blushing bores Robin Holloway M onotony', said Satie (and he should know), is mysterious and pro- found.' Examples spring to mind: the echo- ing spaces of plainsong and......