Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the critical mid-table, from the little-heard cult gems to the guilty pleasures.
When Ramzi Aburedwan was a 6-year-old boy living in a Palestinian refugee camp and throwing stones at Israeli tanks, his favorite toy was a teddy bear that his grandfather salvaged from the trash.
It was meant to be a routine lunchtime performance. The Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires was set to play Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 alongside the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. However, once the ...