Music

Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer

Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s.

Paul Preston expresses both a historic and a musical interpretation of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

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.