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Eurostar mightn't have opened until 1994, but almost 60 years before that, you could still get from London to Paris on a direct train.

PETER HITCHENS: What Britain needs is not High-Speed Two but Low-Speed One. For a small part of the money already wasted on this gleaming fantasy, we could have restored the nice, slow railways.

Are you a fan of Michael Robotham's riveting crime fiction novels? Take a look at this easy reading order guide to all his books!

Big orchestral pieces and a couple of big concertos are on tap for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestras 2023-24 Masterworks season.

Friday, March 5, 2021 Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer Anna Clyne (photo: Jody Elff) Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited acce...

Steve Reich - New York Counterpoint J.S. Bach - Contrapunctus I-IV from Art of the Fugue Anna Clyne - Strange Loops (World Premiere) Jyll Bradley, David Ward, Anna Clyne - Woman Holding a Balance (World Premiere) About Anna Clyne London-born Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Described as a "composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods" in a New York Times profile and as "fearless" by NPR, Clynes work often includes collaborations with cutting-ed...

The famed Glenfinnan Viaduct; a train approaching the Horseshoe Curve on the West Highland Line; The Jacobite steam train crossing the Caledonian Canal on the Banavie Railway Swing Bridge. Pictures: Colin Mearns/National Railway Museum/SSPL/Getty PICTURE the scene: sitting nestled in a window seat as sweeping panoramas unfold. Trundling through rugged glens and mist-strewn moors. Skirting the edges of majestic mountains and traversing remote coastal stretches. A smattering of landmarks – wa...

Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Six more zingers, including strong British contemporary music and the complete Ravel by Graham RicksonSaturday, 13 February 2021     BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder (Avie Records) The musical content is impressive enough, but th...