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The Harry Potter spinoff looks on course for 2016’s top spot after a fourth week at No 1, while Office Christmas Party outdances Bad Santa 2 in the cruel Yule movie stakes
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The early music pioneer celebrated his 70th birthday with battles of speed while composer John Dunstaple was honoured in a sublimely minimal setting
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Thomas Adès led a quarter-century celebration of BCMG’s hugely successful Sound Investment scheme that supports the writing of new music
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a life-changer, he’s sung Wagner on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, and last danced to Tom Chaplin. The Canadian bass-baritone tells us about his musical life on and off the opera stage
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Iván Fischer and his Budapest orchestra want to play in every abandoned synagogue in Hungary. Daniel Barenboim joined them for a fundraiser
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The Japanese conductor got into the swing with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a performance of slow-burning, propulsive energy
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Ars Antiqua Austria/Letzbor
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City of London Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Davan Wetton
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Fate of Greek capital’s Megaron highlights depths to which culture has been hit in country grappling with its worst financial crisis
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It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights
Daniel BarenboimThe era of mass migration is forcing us to reassess our relationship with, and understanding of, other people. I’ve found that music can help in this process
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Artist George Butler created the Hands Up Foundation after first-hand experience of the devastation in Syria. He explains how we can help – by raising our voices
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Immortalised in Samuel Pepys’s diaries, strangely favoured by nuns, but today a curiosity – meet the mysterious and magical tromba marina
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Brief letters: Agency working conditions | South African political parties | Zac Goldsmith’s legacy | Time man of the year | Arts sponsorship | The new Keith Flett
Puccini: Manon Lescaut CD review – Netrebko soars above an uneven recording