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A major cycle of performances and recordings of the works of the Hungarian composer GyOrgy Ligeti has been announced jointly by Sony Classical and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Starting in the autumn, the concerts will take place in London, Paris, Salzburg and eight other cities, taking in Tokyo...

Decca have announced the signing of an exclusive contract with the American soprano Renee Fleming. The first recording to emerge under the new agreement, which was signed in New York on December 13th, will be Mozart's Cosi fan tulle conducted by Sir Georg Solti. In the spring Fleming will sing...

On a freezing December afternoon, London's Barbican Hall became a place of enchantment and mistaken identity. Sir Colin Davis and his LSO gave a concert performance of Britten's A Midsummer Night's