Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad explains what his new robotic cellist can add to the classical music world, and what it can't
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Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
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Watch as a robot performs the cello with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra – world premiere of Jacob Mühlrad's composition "Veer"
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Reindeer skins and sonic looms – Borealis music festival dives into Sámi culture in the Norwegian city of Bergen
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
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Johan Röhr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times – Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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Ludwig Göransson wins his second Oscar for ‘Oppenheimer’ score – previously won the original score Oscar for 2018's ‘Black Panther’
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The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
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RIP PDQ Bach
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Ludwig Göransson wins Golden Globe for Best Original Score with Oppenheimer – previously nominated in this category, this is his first win
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What is Classical Vaporwave?
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Why composers use instruments out of register
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Lalo Schifrin wrote an amazing Mission Impossible theme song
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Ralph Lundsten, Swedish electronic musician and film director, has passed away at the age of 86
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Danny Elfman breaks down his most iconic Tim Burton scores
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Intimate and immense – remembering Kaija Saariaho, one of the greatest composers of our time
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She makes music that shifts from barely-there sonorities to viscera-quaking climaxes – the thrilling Icelandic soundscapes of Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
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Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, considered to be an innovator in classical music, has died aged 70
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Ryuichi Sakamoto’s borderless brilliance. Paying tribute to the visionary Yellow Magic Orchestra member and Oscar-winning composer, who died last month at 71 from cancer.
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Outstanding new composers and genre-hopping experiments – why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse
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Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize
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Stephen Sondheim, titan of the American musical, is dead at 91
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The ambitious music of Tim Follin | Punching Weight [SSFF]
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Five classical composers write for metal band
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Ludwig Göransson has won the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) on The Mandalorian – the composer's first Emmy
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Composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91
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DOOM Eternal’s officially released soundtrack is a poorly mixed mess that composer Mick Gordon barely had a hand in
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Hildur Guðnadóttir becomes first woman to win Best Original Score – Icelandic composer also won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on 'Joker'
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Éliane Radigue - An incandescent force field: the electronic composer’s Chry-Ptus is reissued.
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Film composer Michel Legrand dead at 86
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George Walker, trailblazing American composer, dies at 96
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