The UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...
Some time ago I reviewed a disc by the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, and expressed doubt about the quality of what I heard. This was sacrilege: for many music fans, Gergiev is a god-like ...
The Fifth was almost the last Mahler symphony I came to grips with. I always found it peculiarly difficult. I first heard it when my father went to America in the early 1960s and came back with a copy ...
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