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The Aurora Orchestra performing in Printworks London

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James Bowman sings at Leeds Town Hall, 1972

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Andrea Bocelli and HAUSER duet in New York

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Man plays ‘world’s largest flutes’, creating the perfect eerie soundtrack for The Whale movie

Man plays ‘world’s largest flutes’, creating the perfect eerie soundtrack for The Whale movie

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The history of the castrati

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The Stumpff Lock in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.

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The 292-year-old Guarneri violin known as the ‘Baltic’

Centuries-old Italian violin breaks auction records after selling at £7.71 million

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Met Opera ordered to pay Anna Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations over Putin ties

Met Opera ordered to pay Anna Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations over Putin ties

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Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov

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