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1 | (3) |
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4 | (3) |
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The Wrong Saint? (c. 200) |
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7 | (3) |
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Slip-up in the Sistine (1515) |
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10 | (2) |
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Masochism, Murder and Madrigals: Don Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1566-1613) |
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12 | (4) |
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The Hit and Run Man: Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) |
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16 | (4) |
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20 | (3) |
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The Conductor Who Beat Himself to Death (1687) |
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23 | (3) |
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The Organist Who Got Cold Feet (1717) |
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26 | (3) |
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Old Bach Pays Tribute (1747) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (3) |
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Last Chance for the King (1788) |
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37 | (3) |
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How the Danes Discovered a New Composer: Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup (1803-91) |
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40 | (4) |
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44 | (3) |
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The Disappearing Orchestra (1833) |
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47 | (3) |
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The Diva Who Inspired Callas (1836) |
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50 | (4) |
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The Vergers' Revenge (1837) |
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54 | (2) |
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Franz Liszt and the Big Tours (1838-47) |
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56 | (3) |
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With String and Sealing Wax (1844) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (3) |
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The Battle of the Champ de Mars (1845) |
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64 | (5) |
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Named after an Orchestra (1846) |
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69 | (5) |
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The Great Chopinzee: Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933) |
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74 | (4) |
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Two into One Won't Go (1848) |
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78 | (2) |
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Music down the Tube (1849) |
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80 | (2) |
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Waiting for Gottschalk (1862) |
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82 | (2) |
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Gottschalk at Large (1865) |
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84 | (3) |
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Man of a Hundred Umbrellas: Erik Satie (1866-1925) |
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87 | (5) |
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Liebling, Look What They've Done to Our Tune! (1870) |
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92 | (3) |
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Just One Corno di Bassetto (1889-90) |
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95 | (4) |
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Several Strings to his Bow: Ennio Bolognini (1893-1979) |
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99 | (4) |
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Was the Conductor Drunk? (1897) |
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103 | (3) |
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A Timely Disagreement (1899) |
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106 | (4) |
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The Missing Soprano (1904) |
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110 | (2) |
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Conducting for the Dithyrambic: Leonard Constant Lambert (1905-51) |
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112 | (3) |
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115 | (2) |
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Assault at the Opera (1912) |
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117 | (4) |
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Not All Rite on the Night (1913) |
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121 | (3) |
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Mad About the Beat (1932) |
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124 | (2) |
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A Spanner in the Work (1937) |
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126 | (2) |
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The Frustrated Cellist (1939) |
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128 | (2) |
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Alexander's Sad Time Grand (1940) |
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130 | (2) |
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The Dame Who Defied the Bombs (1940) |
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132 | (4) |
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The Camp Where Time Ended (1941) |
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136 | (4) |
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A Matter of Life and Death (1944) |
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140 | (5) |
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Gone With the Wind (1944) |
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145 | (3) |
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The Tone-deaf Diva (1944) |
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148 | (3) |
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151 | (2) |
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The Sound of Silence (1952) |
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153 | (3) |
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The Frock's the Star (1953) |
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156 | (2) |
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Concerto for Hosepipe and Hoover (1956) |
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158 | (4) |
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A Disastrous First Performance (1958) |
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162 | (4) |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (3) |
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Merry Pranks of a Master Pianist (1967) |
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172 | (2) |
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The Pianist Who Came a Kropper (1967) |
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174 | (3) |
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Protest at the Proms I (1968) |
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177 | (3) |
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Encores from the Afterlife (1971) |
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180 | (5) |
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The Forgotten Four Minutes (1976) |
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185 | (2) |
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A Bad Blow All Round (1977) |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (4) |
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194 | (4) |
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The Concert that Went With a Bang (1978) |
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198 | (3) |
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From High Society to High Security (1985) |
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201 | (5) |
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206 | (2) |
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An Alarming Concert (1991) |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (3) |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen Takes to the Air (1995) |
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213 | (3) |
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216 | (3) |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (2) |
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Protest at the Proms II (1998) |
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223 | (2) |
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The Thousand-Year Reverberation (2000) |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (2) |
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Caught With His Trousers Down (2001) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (2) |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (3) |
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The Grandest Leg-pull? (2004) |
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238 | (2) |
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Eat Your Instruments - They're Good for You! (2004) |
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240 | (2) |
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Beating Up the Festival Hall (2004) |
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242 | (3) |
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The Swan and the Firemen (2004) |
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245 | (2) |
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What a Turn She Gave (2005) |
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247 | (3) |
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250 | (3) |
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An Unprofitable Gig (2005) |
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253 | (3) |
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