Classical music is right to champion the young

 

Martin Cullingford writes .....

The support and nurturing of the young and the new has always been of immense importance

There’s an understandable, and important, tendency in classical music to place great emphasis on the past. This is true both in terms of repertoire – the bulk of what we hear on disc and in the concert hall having been written many years, often centuries, before – and in terms of artists. Historic recordings reveal great riches about the interpretations of performers no longer with us, and indeed about their eras. Music, like all art forms, ties generations together in both directions, and recording is the perfect bond.

But it is to music’s great credit that the .....

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