Czech Curtains for Mozart
Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer
Music
Political Heroes of the Victorian Music Hall
Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s.
Opera and the Historian
Paul Preston expresses both a historic and a musical interpretation of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.
The Tango Made Flesh: Carlos Gardel
The tango was to Argentina what jazz was to New Orleans. As Simon Collier explains, it swept the world in the pre-First World War era and Carlos Gardel was its star.