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 ...

the use of a minor scale”. Court documents show that US district judge Katherine Polk Failla determined that the musical phrase shared by “Levitating” and the plaintiffs’ works amounted to ...

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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