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Opera

King Priam (Coliseum) Trusting in Tippett Michael Tanner K ng Priam is Tippett's most sustained, though in its first two acts also highly com- pressed, attempt to demonstrate......

Music

Celebrating Strauss Robin Holloway I n 1964, for the centenary of Richard Strauss's birth, his publishers issued the complete songs with piano in three vol- umes, completed by a......