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	Interview with Barry McCann – Classic BRIT Awards 2012 [2 October]
	Interview with Michael Zev Gordon – World premiere of Bohortha on 3 October 2012 – “There is a sense of time pushing on, time pulling back, different kinds of time juxtaposed with each other...”
	Interview with Mark Bebbington – “Arthur Bliss’s piano music is out on a limb, and it’s so transcending of any feeling of Englishness.”
	Feature Review: San Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells
	Feature Review: Sibelius Patriot and Mystic – The Lahti Sibelius Festival 2012 [6-8 September]
	Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet – A preview of the performance on 25 September 2012 at Southbank Centre
	Interview with Julia Sporsén – Martinů’s Julietta at ENO: “It’s absolutely gorgeous music, and the story is so unusual for an opera, so it’s really worth doing.” [17 September-3 October 2012]
	Feature Review – 2012 Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts
	Interview with Richard Tognetti – Australian Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh and London
	Interview with Gabriel Jackson – “I thought it would be nice to buy into the whole tradition of the early 16th-century, to set the piece around examples from the Renaissance.”
	Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012: The Trial of Jean Rhys
	BBC Proms 2012 – Ulster Orchestra, 4 August JoAnn Falletta in her own words
	BBC Proms 2012 – Interview with Vadim Gluzman: “This is the closest I will get to being in a fairy tale”
	Feature Review: Speakers Corner LPs [Mozart & Bruckner/Eugen Jochum … Ravel & Berlioz/Crespin & Ansermet]
	Interview with Benedict Nelson – Britten’s Billy Budd at ENO: “...the opera is not really about Billy... It’s about Vere, he’s the one that has the journey. Billy is the vehicle of his moral dilemma...” [Opens 18 June 2012]
	Fjord Deep, Mountain High – At the Bergen International Festival 2012 [Handel’s Xerxes directed by Stefan Herheim … Leif Ove Andsnes & Mahler Chamber Orchestra]
	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) – A personal view by Rob Pennock
	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) – A personal assessment of DF-D's recordings by Tully Potter
	“It’s good to hear that audiences are enjoying themselves, as that is our job” – Gwyn Hughes Jones & Pinkerton [English National Opera’s Madam Butterfly – showing until 2 June 2012]
	Feature Review – Inner Voices: The Music of Jean Sibelius and David Matthews [Kings Place, London, 5-7 May 2012]
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