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Exhibitions

Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (National Gallery, till 16 January) Golden decade Martin Gayford T he past, notoriously, is another coun- try. But some parts are a......

Music

Celebrating Strauss Robin Holloway I n 1964, for the centenary of Richard Strauss's birth, his publishers issued the complete songs with piano in three vol- umes, completed by a......