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Saved from certain death at Auschwitz – by playing the cello

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Exploring the relationship between the cello and its player, Kate Kennedy describes how Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s musical gift enabled her to survive not just one but two Nazi death camps

Haunted by the soft, sweet power of the violin

1 May 2021 9:00 am

An extraordinary omission from Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is the lyre, the instrument closest…