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Janet Baker’s famous recording of Elgar’s song-cycle is justly regarded as a gramophone classic but Andrew Farach‑Colton sets sail in search of its challengers, old and new

From entering a competition as a bet, Kathleen Ferrier became one of Britain’s foremost singers in the mid-20th century. Fiona Clampin takes a look at her life and asks why, since Ferrier's death, have contraltos fallen out of fashion?

Are these the best contraltos of all time? Or have we missed your favourite?

WARRINGTONS Parr Hall looks unrecognisable in photos shared from almost 130 years ago.

A chatty pub that plays ode to a famous figure

Presidents, theater stars, queens and assorted Vanderbilts, Astors and Drexels among those Ernest Walter Histed photographed in Palm Beach, other places

Gustav and Alma Mahler, and pictorial music, are linked in a fascinating programme. Classical music review by Robert Beale

As you get older, it can be hard to make and keep new friends. Life gets in the way sometimes, with work, family and other commitments. But making the effort to reach out to someone, even though they may be much different from you, may just result in a rewarding friendship. Three individuals -- Ustaz Khidir Ibrahim, Carl Danker and Clara Butt (pictured above from left to right) -- are of different ages, races and religions. However, these differences didn’t stop them from becoming close frien...

Chris Moss remembers the endeavours and eccentricities of early 20th-century explorers 12 January 2021 • 1:33pm Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scotts Terra Nova Expedition Credit: Getty The Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration dates from the International Geographical Congress held in London in 1895, which issued the following resolution: “That this congress record its opinion that the exploratio...