Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music

Paul Lewis – whose Beethoven series won worldwide acclaim.

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Whatever the definition of classical music to which you personally subscribe, we think that the great jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong had things just about right, when he said: ‘There’s only two ways to sum up music: either it’s good or it’s bad. If it’s good you don’t mess about it – you just enjoy it.’

Music and the arts were regarded as having a civilising effect on society, whether the particular works were religious or secular in their nature.