Luciano Berio's often collage-like Sinfonia for eight solo voices and orchestra is one of the seminal works of the 1960s. It incorporates texts by Lévi-Strauss and Beckett, as well as a tribute to ...
Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's First Symphony to uncover a world of musical memories. Read more ...
Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, followed by Mahler’s 10th Symphony; it would be hard to think of a more intense pairing than this one, given to us last night by the BBC Philharmonic and its new chief ...