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A truly great composer will admit, ‘I don’t know’

A truly great composer will admit, ‘I don’t know’

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

… The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t know. Hope flickers to deceive. There is no definitive resolution to Nielsen’s fifth symphony. Each performance differs from the last….

Read on here.

And in The Critic.

En francais ici.

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