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‘Winterreise’ was, fittingly, Schubert’s final work. He was checking the text for publishing just before he died.

Among my childhood baubles, one item stood out: a shellac 78 rpm record of Enrico Caruso singing ‘La donna è mobile’ from Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto

Sit yourself down in a chair. Bend your left leg over your right. While keeping your back straight, scratch the end of your nose with...

“Is it original?” the member of the film crew asked me. “Yes. It’s a letter he wrote to his mother. One of about a thousand that...

There has been a lot of comment over the last few days following The Telegraph’s revelations that Puffin books have “revised” Roald Dahl...