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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...

Before the young Korean violinist Chee Yuri, made her New York concertos debut in April, at a gala evening concert on the Young Artists Series at the Tisch Center for the Performing Arts, promotion almost did her in for me. Within a week's time one radio programme twice featured her recording of...

JUST days before the UK inquiry into the cost of CDs was due to report, Simon Coombs, a British MP, spent an hour walking around the main classical record shops in London's West End, gathering comparative prices for one CD, Mozart's Horn Concertos in the Chandos recording. He presented the...