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Nick Kimberley meets composer Michael Nyman elsewhere, history, far from reaching a full stop, ties itself in ever more complex knots. Take period instruments: who would have predicted that, at the end of the twentieth century, some of the most incisively modern music would derive from ancient...

THREE of Teldec's key conductors have been making important recordings in recent months. Kurt Masur has set down Brahms's Third Symphony with the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra in New York's Avery Fisher Hall. Nikolaus Harnon- court has assembled a cast that includes Charlotte Margiono,...

Its base is in Toronto, where, when it is not recording or touring, it gives about 40 concerts a year, mostly at its home at the church of Trinity St Paul. And as Canada's only baroque orchestra, it shares few players with other groups. "This is their band as much as mine," explains the quiet but...