Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first publisher of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Hans Georg Nägeli, called it the “greatest musical work ...

British pop singer Dua Lipa has won a lawsuit that claimed she copied the melody of her hit song “Levitating” from a Seventies disco track ... descending on a B minor scale in ‘Levitating ...

Further confirming him as a Bach conductor of deeply reflective sincerity, Raphaël Pichon follows his Award-winning St Matthew Passion with the B minor Mass. New Year, Michael Tippett’s operatic ...

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He did take pauses now and then, electing for example to let the delicate “Raindrop” Prelude linger in the mind rather than immediately blow it away with the stormy Prelude in B-flat minor. Though ...

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