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Brooding, dreamy and full of sorrow – why Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5 still moves us today
What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.
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Biss, BBCSO, Hrůša, Barbican review - electrifying Shostakovich at a crucial time
At the end of an exhausting week in which Holocaust Memorial Day struck a more urgent note than ever as fascism started tearing through the USA, parts of this concert were bound to hit hard. That they ...