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 Ask Alice - On delusions, fruitcakes and the Elgar Cello Concerto, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh

Anniversaries: Arthur Honegger; Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel; Charles Koechlin

Today's concerts: Greek National Opera - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos; Athens, GR; Jelena Makarova, piano; London, UK; Peter Rayner, cello, and Sophia Rahman, piano; London, UK; 'A Night Under The Stars', hosted by Stephen Fry; London, UK; Ruth Corney, flute, and Sam Cave, guitar - Piazzolla, Castelnuovo Tedesco and Stephen Dodgson; Uxbridge, UK

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