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The psychology of ninth symphonies is a problem area for composers. Reaching the common tally of Beethoven, Schubert and Dvoiak often heralds the footfalls of mortality, as with Mahler, who declined to number Das Lied von der Erde — though the 'No. 9' curse still got him anyway — or...

Chequered histories are by no means uncommon in the world of opera, but the vicissitudes of Pepita Jimènez — the only one of Albeniz's numerous attempts at a stage work to have achieved any real success — have been more wildly complicated than most. Though written in English to a libretto by...