Headlines
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- BBC Young Musician: the winner
Fifteen-year-old cellist Laura van der Heijden wins with Walton cello concerto - RPS awards announced, with Abbado and Pollini winning
National Youth Choir of Scotland named ensemble of the year - Sound and Music appoints new chief executive
Arts Council music director moves to troubled organisation - RPO CDs to hit hundreds of thousands of doormats this weekend
Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph to run with free Mozart and Elgar discs - RPS Gold Medal for Mitsuko Uchida
Presentation to be made at awards ceremony on 8 May
Contents for Classical Music

Naxos at 25 – Klaus Heymann looks back on an extraodinary journey
- FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE
A 50th anniversary performance of Britten’s War Requiem heads up Coventry Cathedral’s golden jubilee
- WAR REQUIEM: THE FIRST PERFORMANCE
CBSO percussionist Maggie Cotton on one of the most memorable performances of a long career
FEATURES
- GLYNDEBOURNE’S WINDS OF CHANGE
Do you really need to rebrand a success story?
- NAXOS AT 25
How a super-budget label became a one-stop shop for music enthusiasts
- EASTERN PROMISE
Suffolk’s new professional orchestra
- GEORGE BENJAMIN RETROSPECTIVE
South Bank prepares for a weekend of Jubilation
PLUS Singing focus: from Pierrot lunaire to Leslie Garrett
Editorial
Keith Clarke - editor
From the current issue of Classical Music
When we had the Gerry cans fiasco and the self-inflicted petrol crisis, it was hard to imagine that the coalition government could make a bigger mess, but Chancellor George seems to have managed it with his budget. ...
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