Music
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
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