Moments of stillness and animation, spareness and exuberance, are highlighted in a confident performance of a work started in 1948 – now finally recorded with its fourth movement During his lifetime, ...
Classical music endured its own set of culture wars for much of the 20th Century. Tonal music vs. atonal, French Impressionism (Debussy and Ravel) vs. Second Viennese School Expressionism (Schoenberg ...
It’s hard to recall that Pierre Boulez was once the Angry Young Man of modern music. For decades he seemed almost avuncular, telling us in genial pre-concert talks that modern music really doesn’t ...