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Record Review Podcast Building a Library: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time Messaien's piece was premiered at a prisoner of war camp, outdoors in the rain, in 1941. 48 mins ...

Per Nørgård’s Eighth Symphony is the unusual opener in a programme of magnificent Beethoven and Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, Paul Lewis and John Storgårds at the Bridgewater Hall.

“Hey, that’s neat!” Sibelius certainly has a sound. He comes along as one of the final Romantic composers, like Richard Strauss, writing from the 19th Century into the 20th. Sibelius totally ...