Classical King

A while back we reported that Bank of England governor Mervyn King was spotted out at an hour-long symphony by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich at London's Royal Festival Hall. Now a press report says, shock horror, he has been seen carrying a CD of Mahler's second symphony.

This gem of information was gathered at the recent set of spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank and prompted various links to the state of the global economy with the symphony titled "Resurrection".

But King's choice

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