Exclusive interview: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
The brilliant French pianist gets rhapsodic as he tells Jeremy Pound about his passion for Gershwin

A guide to Gustav
Ten of the world's greatest conductors explain the magic of Mahler's ten symphonies

Only the good die young…
But what, we ask, might the likes of Schubert and Berg have achieved if they'd grown old

Lang Lang
As the Chinese pianist shapes up for a date at the Royal Albert Hall, he talks to Rebecca Franks

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An American Adventure
From Grofé's Mississippi to Ellington's Harlem, by way of Gershwin's Second Rhapsody and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, we travel across the richly varied landscape that is musical America