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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci on the Transformative Power of Music
Intelligence Squared
The Biggest Deterrent to Opera
Intelligence Square is famous for its wonderful debates. I want to bring us to Mozart because where you do agree that Bach is the greatest, you rather diverge on the subject of Mozart. James describes listening obsessively through a certain pair of Mozart operas. You say these two are by Mozart which helps. The biggest deterrent to opera for me is Wagner. No, quite seriously though, Mozart. It seemed to me like the Mozart I heard seemed like variations on twinkle, twinkle, little stuff. It felt too sugary and too nice. And I remember listening to on Radio 3 the Bernard Levin doing a talk,. an interval talk where he actually praised
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