Bach’s The Art of Fugue is a daunting challenge, even for one of the leading Bach interpreters of her generation. Angela Hewitt has recently recorded Bach’s masterwork for the first time and for our cover story spoke to Philip Clark about finding her way through the musical maze. Also in this issue:

● Conductor Vasily Petrenko speaks to Geoffrey Norris about dividing his life between Liverpool and Oslo, and the conclusion of his Shostakovich symphony cycle for Naxos

● Editor Martin Cullingford…

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