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'Delightful . . . An entertaining and humanising portrait.' LITERARY REVIEW'Elegant and compelling . . . Absorbing and multi-faceted.' GRAMOPHONERa...

'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky...

Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, natur...

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects ...