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19 years ago
Gary Hoffman

[The Guardian, 25 August 2006]
Few singers can boast of having a song cycle written for them. Ian Bostridge remembers how cats, a Kenyan island and a faulty metronome contributed to Hans Werner Henze’s Sechs Ges‰nge

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