During the course of the Competition we have pointed out the universal media indifference to its proceedings. Put another way, the Competition failed to organise proper media coverage, so none of the right people turned […]
Here’s a symphony that lives up to its name: the outburst that opens Respighi’s Sinfonia drammatico (1913-15, P. 102) is a late-Romantic explosion, and al the music seems to want to do thenceforth is get […]