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2010: a look ahead at the year in classical music
It’s the year of Mahler, whose symphonies are longer, louder and more laden with grandstanding than anyone else’s
The decade in classical music
It was the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra who provided the moment of the decade, when they gate-crashed Europe’s sedate halls
The decade in opera
There has been a sea change: the new divas and divos are now stage animals as much as vocal technicians

Classical music
The best contemporary classical albums of the decade