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The Orlando Consort have turned their attention to music by one of England's first great composers. Review page 85

Carl Nielsen, Denmark's most important composer, is commemorated in two museums not far apart on the island of Funen. One is in the thatched-roof cottage where he lived as a child, the other a modern museum attached to

One can think of several singers — Placido Domingo, for a start — who have moved up from baritone to tenor. But there can't be many who, like Axel Uhler, have made the more drastic transition from baritone to countertenor. Born in Schwarzenberg, in the former GDR, KOhler changed his principal...